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"The residents who live here, according to the parable, began noticing increasing numbers of drowning people caught in the river's swift current and so went to work inventing ever more elaborate technologies to resuscitate them. So preoccupied were these heroic villagers with rescue and treatment that they never thought to look UPSTREAM to see who was pushing the victims in."
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This seminar contains a review of the FDM Principles as well as a basic introduction to the Practice of the Fascial Distortion Model in relation to the Lower Region of the human body. Here we will fine-tune your knowledge of the basic principles and expose you to the power of correctly identifying and treating Lower Region complaints as they relate to the FDM. Special attention will be emphasized on teaching you how to properly administer the basic manual treatment portion of our Model.
You will have the opportunity to feel what it is like to be treated within the FDM and practice the manual treatment portions in detail with our instructors. Our teaching approach is very interactive and hands-on. Evaluations throughout the seminar on many different aspects of the FDM Principles and Practice will be administered by our team. This not only assists in quality control, but will also ensure that you have instant feedback to questions you may have as the seminar progresses.
The list of injuries that you will learn to treat is extensive. But don't worry…there are no protocols to learn here! Within the FDM, our Model is unlike the traditional assessment-protocol- treatment-rehab regurgitation we typically learn in school, or with other 'techniques'. We will teach you not only what to treat, but how to treat it, and why…regardless of the diagnostic label.
Having said that, upon completing the Lower Region seminar you will have a better understanding of the FDM approach and will be able to confidently apply our Model to common Lower Region injuries typically found in office. Examples of injuries you will learn to treat include: "Low Back Pain, Low Back Sprain/Strains, Abdominal Sprains/Strains, SI Joint Pain, Disc Injuries, Ankle Sprains/Strains, Sever's Disease, Heel Pain, Plantar Fasciitis, Achilles Tendonitis, Shin Splints, Compartment Syndrome, Knee Pain, Patellar Tendonitis, Osgood Schlatter's Disease, Hamstring Sprains/Strains and IT Band Syndrome."
Once you have completed this seminar you will immediately possess the general knowledge and skill to correctly identify and treat Lower Region complaints in your office. Your new understanding of what to treat will have an entirely new confidence behind it! As you practice within this Model, your assessment and palpation skills will naturally improve because your identification of why you're treating a particular area will be directly correlated to how. Your added security will be in the state-of-art training manual we will provide for you as well as access to our Instructors and communication portals.
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Okay, so, lets talk about stress.
Well, for starters it's something that affects all of us in some form or another. And secondly, one of the keynote speakers this past weekend was the one and only Dr. Robert Sapolsky, author ofWhy Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.
He's one of the world's foremost experts on stress (he wrote a book about it, duh.), and someone who's done more research on the topic than pretty much everyone, ever.
And he has an epic beard.
Which means we should listen to him.
Gandalf schmandalf
The good doc spoke for around 90 minutes, but it felt like it was ten. It was all fascinating.
He discussed stress and how we as humans (more specifically those of us who have been around for the last 100 or so years) have changed how we react to (both physiologically and psychologically) and cope with stress.
You see, we don't worry so much about infectious diseases in the "modern world" today. Diseases like dysentery, leprosy, and to a much smaller degree, influenza (flu)1 used to be much more of a problem back in the day.
Omitting the looney tune anti-vaxxers in the crowd, we've also made diseases such as polio, measles, and smallpox all but a passing memory.
Today, however, while they still exist and certainly shouldn't be taken lightly, it's not infectious diseases that are the leading cause(s) of death. Rather, as Dr. Sapolsky noted, it's diseases which take their time to slowly deteriorate our bodies over the course of decades.
Heart disease, diabetes, marriage, etc…..
"Why is it when we feel someone doesn't love us, or we feel sad or angry, we reach for the M&Ms?
If we could figure this out, we'd cure half the cases of diabetes."
"Why is it when we feel someone doesn't love us, or we feel sad or angry, we reach for the M&Ms?
If we could figure this out, we'd cure half the cases of diabetes."
– Dr. Sapolsky
Stress: adaptation your body mobilizes to re-establish homeostasis in the system. I'm paraphrasing here but, "hormones are released and [stuff] happens."
Stressors: anything in the outside world that affects homeostatic balance.
For a zebra this can be being chased by a lion. For humans this can refer to tax season or your S.O. wanting to sit down and "talk about feelings."
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Everyone believes science and technology will solve our problems, when in fact only personal interaction can solve these types of challenges. We employ people to play, coach and support our team – not machines or numbers. Although analytics and technology has become a staple within many high performing organizations, they only serve to help professionals ask better questions, not answer them definitively.
Consider the game of billiards. This is a simple game of math and physics – angles, velocity, force etc., - an elementary numbers game. The billiard balls and table themselves are a very simplified system. The table is as flat as possible and the balls are made as round as possible and essentially operate in an essentially frictionless environment, while the bumpers are uniform and consistent in nature. Everything is set up for a skilled mathematician to succeed, but rarely does one ever run the table. That's because on the other end of the cue is a human being. A human being having to navigate a shaking hand, a sleepless night, jetlag and a fight with their significant other. In this world, the bumpers are not uniform, but instead act as a side of a mountain would with a boulder travelling down. In the real world, billiard balls collide and bounce off one another haphazardly, and each subsequent move must be reevaluated, reassessed, and renegotiated. The human playing billiards; his skills and motives are outside of the scope of physics and the mathematical analysis of the balls' behaviors is not one of simple math but of extreme abstraction.
- Art Horne
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck says that children are more motivated when they are told their intelligence or talents can grow and expand.
By Clifton B. Parker
Stanford psychology Professor Carol Dweck finds that the right kind and amount of praise motivate children to persevere, but the wrong kind or amount of praise can backfire.
Passion, dedication and persistence count the most when children are cultivating their intelligence and talents, a Stanford scholar says.
Carol Dweck, a Stanford psychology professor, said that when children are praised for the process they engage in – hard work, strategies, focus, persistence – they become better learners. The Stanford News Service recently interviewed Dweck on this topic:
What types of praise works with children?
Our research shows that children who are praised for their intelligence or talents are not more motivated learners. In fact, when children are praised for their intelligence or talents, they shy away from challenges and are less resilient in the face of difficulty.
However, when children are praised for the process they engage in – their hard work, their strategies, their focus, their persistence – then they remain motivated learners. They're more likely to take on challenges and thrive in the face of difficulty. In one study, we evaluated mothers' praise to their toddlers and then checked in with the children five years later. The more the mothers gave their children "process praise" when they were toddlers, the more the children had a growth mindset (see below) and a desire for challenges five years later when they were in second grade – and the better they were doing in math and reading when they were in fourth grade.
Research with my former Stanford doctoral student, Allison Master, suggests that too much praise can be a bad thing. In this research, students who were given constant praise for their work became highly dependent on the praise, and many lost their motivation when the praise stopped.
In short, praise can be powerful, but it can be a motivator or a de-motivator.
What is the difference between fixed and growth mindsets?
When children are in a fixed mindset, they believe that their intelligence and talents are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that's that. However, when they're in a growth mindset, they believe that their intelligence or talents can be developed – through hard work, good strategies and help from others. They don't necessarily believe that everyone's equally smart or talented, but they believe that everyone can grow.
In our work, we find that a growth mindset promotes better motivation and performance, especially when things are difficult, for example, when students are facing difficult school transitions. When kids (or adults) are in a fixed mindset, difficulty makes them feel inadequate – their fixed ability feels deficient – and their confidence becomes shaky. But when they are in a growth mindset, difficulty is a natural part of learning, so they are more likely to take it in stride and find new strategies that work better. This is true about students in the classroom, athletes on the playing field, or people in the workplace.
The important thing to keep in mind is that mindsets can be changed. A growth mindset can be taught and, when it is, people can become more motivated, more resilient and more successful.
What is "grit" and why is it important for children?
Grit is perseverance, or "stick-to-it-iveness." All difficult, long-term achievements require it, and research by Angela Duckworth and her colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania show that a growth mindset fosters it. Grit is important for children and adults alike because if you are taking on challenges, setbacks are inevitable. In one study, with psychologist Heidi Grant, we looked at pre-med students in their very difficult organic chemistry course. Many of them got disappointing grades on the first exam or two, but how they reacted to those grades made a big difference. Some students doubted their abilities and lost heart, but others rolled up their sleeves and dug in. They met with the professor or teaching assistants, they went to review sessions, they joined study groups, and they found older students who had done well in the course to mentor them. Even though the two types of students didn't differ in their initial preparation or ability, those who showed grit earned significantly higher final grades.
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Lauren Eskreis-Winkler is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. In collaboration with Dr. Angela Duckworth, her research advisor, she has spent the past four years developing and testing grit interventions. These interventions aim to build grit in individuals who need it most -- struggling athletes, students in grade school, sales representatives at risk of dropping out, and community college students on probation. In her presentation, she will discuss a variety of grit-building techniques and their relevance to athletes in particular.
Article originally appeared on hbr.org
by John Beshears and Francesca Gino
All employees, from CEOs to frontline workers, commit preventable mistakes: We underestimate how long it will take to finish a task, overlook or ignore information that reveals a flaw in our planning, or fail to take advantage of company benefits that are in our best interests. It's extraordinarily difficult to rewire the human brain to undo the patterns that lead to such mistakes. But there is another approach: Alter the environment in which decisions are made so that people are more likely to make choices that lead to good outcomes.
Leaders can do this by acting as architects. Drawing on our extensive research in the consulting, software, entertainment, health care, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, banking, retail, and food industries and on the basic principles of behavioral economics, we have developed an approach for structuring work to encourage good decision making.
Our approach consists of five basic steps: (1) Understand the systematic errors in decision making that can occur, (2) determine whether behavioral issues are at the heart of the poor decisions in question, (3) pinpoint the specific underlying causes, (4) redesign the decision-making context to mitigate the negative impacts of biases and inadequate motivation, and (5) rigorously test the solution. This process can be applied to a wide range of problems, from high employee turnover to missed deadlines to poor strategic decisions.
For decades, behavioral decision researchers and psychologists have suggested that human beings have two modes of processing information and making decisions. The first, System 1 thinking, is automatic, instinctive, and emotional. It relies on mental shortcuts that generate intuitive answers to problems as they arise. The second, System 2, is slow, logical, and deliberate. (Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel prize in economics, popularized this terminology in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Each of the two modes of thinking has distinct advantages and disadvantages. In many cases, System 1 takes in information and reaches correct conclusions nearly effortlessly using intuition and rules of thumb. Of course, these shortcuts can lead us astray. So we rely on our methodical System 2 thinking to tell us when our intuition is wrong or our emotions have clouded our judgment, and to correct poor snap judgments. All too often, though, we allow our intuitions or emotions to go unchecked by analysis and deliberation, resulting in poor decisions. (For a look at how both modes of thinking can cause problems, see "Outsmart Your Own Biases.")
Overreliance on System 1 thinking has another negative effect: It leads to poor follow-through on plans, despite people's best intentions and genuine desire to achieve their goals. That's because System 1 tends to focus on concrete, immediate payoffs, distracting us from the abstract, long-term consequences of our decisions. For instance, employees know they should save for retirement, yet they rarely get around to signing up for their 401(k) plans. (A survey conducted in 2014 by TIAA-CREF found that Americans devote more time to choosing a TV or the location for a birthday dinner than to setting up a retirement account.)
We do not mean to suggest that System 1 should be entirely suppressed in order to promote sound decisions. The intuitive reactions of System 1 serve as important inputs in the decision-making process. For example, if an investment opportunity triggers a fearful emotional response, the decision maker should carefully consider whether the investment is too risky. Using System 2, the emotional response should be weighed against other factors that may be underappreciated by System 1—such as the long-term strategic value of the investment.
Engaging System 2 requires exerting cognitive effort, which is a scarce resource; there's simply not enough of it to govern all the decisions we're called on to make. As the cognitive energy needed to exercise System 2 is depleted, problems of bias and inadequate motivation may arise.
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5. Continuing Education Units: Earn continuing educations units for Athletic Trainers, Strength and Conditioning specialists through the NSCA and Athletic Therapists through the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association. Have multiple certifications? Nothing like killing two birds with one stone and getting them both with us! (No birds were hurt in the making of this blog)
4. Sports Science: Do you come from the land down under? Where women roll and men thunder?
Ok, probably not but Sam Coad, Performance Director at the University of Michigan does! Learn from the former the Brisbane Lions Australian Rules Football club sports scientist as he discusses elite athlete monitoring systems. Want more science? No problem –Roman Fomin holds a PhD in physiology and is regarded as one of the foremost experts in physiological monitoring, technologies and methods.
3. The Whiz Kid is back! When the title of your talk is, "Neuroimmune Plasicity: The Substrate of Performance" you know you are going to get a world class performance! Eric Oetter returns for another year of lecture and lab demonstrations. Trust us – this will be a lecture you don't want to miss!
2. Meet and learn from the lead Nutritionist for the Canadian Men's National Basketball Team – Dr. Marc Bubbs, author of Paleo Project. Remember – your gut is your brain!
1. Practical Session with Sam Gibbs: "Global Treatment Approach of the Shoulder"
Enter into the world of Osteopathic medicine with the lead therapist for Canada Basketball. Let's just say it's going to be AWESOME eh!
10. Unleash your inner GEEK: Where else can you find speakers from other seminars in attendance to learn? Join the leaders in the sports medicine, rehabilitation, and sport performance training for two days of complete and utter knowledge BOMBS! If you're lucky you might just run into these leaders….
9. Free Lunch: Seriously, how many other seminars "cater" to your need to network during breaks? We know you come for the information but we also understand that knowledge can be found from other attendees as well. Enjoy lunch on us May 15th along with plenty of coffee and snacks throughout the weekend. Did we mention an epic social event at the conclusion of the first day? Oh we didn't? Hmmm, I guess you'll just have to wait to find out!
8. Complete Medical and Performance Integration: Join the Canadian Senior Men's National Basketball team for a complete discussion and look behind the curtain as they rush the podium at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic games!
7. Boston: Seriously, do we need to say more? Arrive a day early, or stay through Sunday and experience all that Boston offers including a Fenway Park tour, Duck Boats and great clam CHOWDA!
6. Once In A Lifetime Speaker Opportunities: Let's be honest. You'll never see a number of our speakers ever again.
Forever, ever? (you get the point)
Meet international experts Al Smith and Vincent Walsh as they travel across the pond to deliver two keynote presentations.
5. Free Stuff: All attendees will receive a swag bag full of goodies and sample products upon arriving. In addition, attendees who are present during our raffles will have a chance to receive gifts from our sponsors including PERFORM BETTER and MOVEMENT LECTURES.COM.
4. Detailed Breakout Sessions: In addition to our amazing keynote presentations, our seminar features detailed breakout sessions each afternoon. Learn from these experts in small group settings and immediately improve your practice and coaching on Monday morning! Be ready for the #BOOM during James Anderson's breakout! You've been warned! #droppingknowledgebombs #boom
3. Sam Gibbs, Allen Gruver, and Mike Davis: We know that you've probably never heard of these guys but we guarantee that you'll never forget them after this year. These three guys are absolute musculoskeletal rehab ninjas!
2. Performance Coaches From The Highest Level of Sport: Learn from Matt Jordan - Director of Strength and Conditioning for the Canadian Sport Institute, Charlie Weingroff – Lead Performance Director for Canada Basketball, Roman Fomin – Omegawave, Sam Coad – Performance Manager – University of Michigan, and Andy O'Brien – Performance coach to elite NHL athletes, to name a few.
1. The Man Himself: Dr. Robert Sapolsky – May 15th, 8:00 am. See you then!
This article originally appeared on www.conqasport.com by Daniel Gallan
Injury: the greatest fear for every athlete. Across any code, at any level, injury is a part of life for sportsmen and women. A torn hamstring, a broken arm, a severe concussion; all injuries require extensive physical therapy. But what about the mental battle that needs to be waged when injured? How does the psychological process measure up to the physiological one? Doctor Charlie Weingroff and Springbok captain Jean de Villiers reveal what an athlete goes through psychologically when undergoing physical rehabilitation.
Springbok captain Jean de Villiers receives medical attention after sustaining a career threatening injury against Wales last year. Image supplied by Jean de Villiers.
On the 29th November 2014, at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the South African rugby community held its collective breath when captain and 106 Test veteran Jean de Villiers fell to the floor clutching his left knee during a Test against Wales. His cries of agony could be heard over the live television feed with replays showing his leg bending at a sickening angle. A post-match prognosis indicated a broken knee cap, a torn hamstring and anterior cruciate knee ligament damage. What we had seen may well have been the abrupt end of one of the most illustrious and successful careers in the history of the sport.
"When it happened my first thought was definitely negative," de Villiers says in an exclusive interview with CONQA Sport. "I thought "that's the end". Because of my age and the stage of my career that I'm at, I immediately went to a negative place. I knew it was bad straight away."
De Villiers is a positive person and those negative thoughts were vanquished within the first few minutes. The Springbok captain was being carried off the field on a stretcher when assistant coach Johan van Graan told him that he was still going to go to the World Cup in September. The road to recovery, and indeed the World Cup, started right there on his back.
According to de Villiers, the rehabilitation process is a mental battle from the very first day. Having a solid support base in the form of close friends and family is crucial as they are the ones that build the mind while the physiotherapists, surgeons and coaches rebuild the body.
Doctor Charlie Weingroff is someone who knows how to rebuild both. Weingroff, a certified Athletic Trainer and Strength and Conditioning Specialist holds a doctorate degree in Physical Therapy. His work with elite athletes going through rehabilitation has brought him international renown and his time with the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2005/06 season saw the East Coast franchise ranked first in the NBA for the least amount of players missing games through injury.
For Weingroff, the mental side of rehabilitation is just as important as the physical process but stresses that because everyone is different, there are no set rules when understanding the mental side of recovery. Unlike a ruptured hamstring or a broken arm, every mind is comprised of different experiences and emotions. Some players may need constant reassurance that their rehabilitation is on track; others may need as little social interaction as possible. According to Weingroff, some players are like "little mad scientists" and scrutinise over every scrap of data while others simply need to be told what to do. Some injured athletes blame coaches and trainers for their ailments and others push too hard in their pursuit of fitness. As a result of the variety of mental states, Weingroff instead chooses to solve the mental battle with a physical approach.
"The psychological side of rehabilitation is still scientifically observable," explains Weingroff. "Spiked levels of dopamine and certain neurotransmissions can be monitored. Maintaining hormonal and neurotransmitter levels associated with positive mind-sets and positive rehabilitation is what we strive for."
This is achieved in a number of ways. First, the mind needs to be tricked into thinking that the body is healthy. As de Villiers and Weingroff both point out, one of the major inhibitors for rehabilitation is the athlete's frustration that high levels of performance are no longer possible while injured. Weingroff circumnavigates this negativity by focussing on another area of the body. If an athlete has injured his foot or knee, there is no reason why the upper body cannot be trained. If this happens, there is a reduced risk of central sensitisation, a condition of the nervous system that is associated with chronic pain. "The athlete does not dwell on the injured body part and the area does not occupy a larger space in the cognitive brain," Weingroff says. "Pain is in the mind, not in the body."
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What is Functional Range Release?
Functional Range Release is an advanced system of soft-tissue treatment based in the principles of myofascial release, but with multiple improvements. The treatment system, in combination with the Functional Anatomic Palpation Systems® methods of palpation, focuses on the assessment, localization, and systematic treatment of soft-tissue lesions (adhesions) and areas of fibrosis (scar tissue) which develop as a result of injury, repetitive strain, and cumulative trauma.Utilizing the trademarked PAIL's Progressive Angular Isometric Loading®) and Tissue Tension Technique®, Functional Range Release® soft-tissue management system expands on the basic tenets of myofascial-release treatments by simultaneously assessing, expanding, and strengthening the patient's functional range of motion. Through our seminars, the practitioner learns to not only treat tissue, but is also provided a means to assess the tissue in order to make sound clinical decisions.
In addition to the 3-day hands on instruction, the seminar also includes a significant online lecture component covering a variety of topics...ONLINE LECTURE TOPICS: - Cellular Anatomy/Histological basis of the FR® system- Molecular Biophysics- Progressive tissue adaptationSEMINAR CONTENT:- Functional Anatomic Palpation Systems (FAP)™- Tissue Tension Technique- Progressive/Regressive Angular Isometric Loading- Tissue Layering Technique- Neurological Drive assessment- Mobility Rehabilitation & Development Spaces are filling up fast. Register now by following the link below and get certified in the most advanced musculoskeletal assessment, treatment, and rehabilitative system to date...http://www.functionalanatomyseminars.com/register-for-seminars -- Web http://www.FunctionalAnatomySeminars.comBlog http://www.FunctionalAnatomyBLOG.comFacebook http://www.Facebook.com/FunctionalAnatomySeminars
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- Andreo Spina
Interview by Patrick Ward, http://optimumsportsperformance.com
1) Thanks for taking the time out of your busy clinical and teaching schedule to do this interview, Dr. Spina. Can you please give the readers a short overview of your background??
Sure thing…
I studied Kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. I later graduated with summa cum laude and clinic honors from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College as a Doctor of Chiropractic and subsequently completed the two-year post-graduate fellowship in sports sciences. During my time studying Chiropractic, I became the first pre-graduate student to tutor in the cadaver laboratory in the department of Human Anatomy, a position that continued throughout my post-graduate fellowship program.
Stemming from my passion of studying and teaching anatomy, in 2006 I created Functional Anatomic Palpation Systems (F.A.P.)™ which is a systematic approach to soft tissue assessment and palpation. Following the success of F.A.P. seminars, I later created a follow up system of soft tissue release and rehabilitation called Functional Range Release (F.R.)® technique which is now being utilized by manual practitioners around the world including the medical staffs of various professional sports organizations. I then combined the scientific knowledge gained during my studies with my 29 years of martial arts training in various disciplines to create the third installment of my curriculum, Functional Range Conditioning (FRC)™, which is a system of mobility conditioning and joint strengthening.
Aside from my work teaching seminars, I also own a sports centre in Toronto, Ontario where I practice and train clients. I am a published researcher, and I have authored chapters in various sports medicine textbooks.2) You approach to soft tissue therapy is extremely comprehensive and, after having attending one of your courses before, it is obvious that you have spent a lot of time reading research in order to develop your thought processes and theories about what may be taking place when we apply contact to another person's body. The fascial system is a big part of your approach and the concept of the fascial system and how the body is connected has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. Can you please explain your approach and this concept you refer to as "Bioflow Anatomy"?
To say that the Functional Range Release system has a sole focus on fascia is not entirely accurate actually, although it might have been in the not so distant past. Further examination of literature has led/forced me to be more inclusive of other tissues, which together constitute the most abundant type of tissue in the human body, namely Connective Tissue (CT). Examples of other tissues inclusive in CT other than fascia include bone, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, lymphatic tissues…and even 80% of nerve structure. When contemplating the effects of manual therapy 'inputs,' or even training inputs for that matter, we must be inclusive of all of these tissue types as each of them will equally adapt to applied inputs. To say that with a particular soft tissue technique application I am affecting one tissue vs. another is as inaccurate as claiming that any particular exercise targets a single tissue, which is in fact impossible. This line of thought stems from literature examining the effects of load inputs on cellular/subcellular processes…a topic that we dive into deeply in the FR Release curriculum.
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Thanks to Patrick Ward for this interview!
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Patricia Leatherwood Gomez was born December 4, 1962. Patricia went home to be with the Lord on May 7, 2013.
She was preceded in death by her parents George Leatherwood, Sr. and Dorothy Perkins. She is survived by her children Rudy (Caitlin) Paredez, Gilbert (Kaitlynn) Paredez, Andrew Walker, and Nicole (Jeff) Paredez; her brothers James, Jim and George Leatherwood; and 14 grandchildren.
Patricia was a loving mother, sister, aunt and grandmother, and will be missed by everyone.
Visitation will be held from 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Friday, May 10, 2013 at the Limbaugh Funeral Home in Portland. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM, Saturday, May 11, 2013 at the Portland Christian Center. Interment to follow at the Palms Memorial Gardens.
We would rather be away from our bodies and at home with the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:8

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Slightly dissapointed even though I won the SPL with rangers on 19/03/12, I really wanted to win it in the next match which is against Celtic.
Whats the earliest others have won a league by? haven't had any really amazing results just been consistant and Celtic have been really poor for some reason


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Stephen Redding
Princeton University and CEPR
Stephen Redding's research interests include international trade, economic geography, and productivity growth at the firm and industry level. Recent work has examined the relationship between comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms' response to international trade; the role of product choice in understanding firm development and industry dynamics; the uneven effects of Indian liberalization; the role of 'absorptive capacity' in facilitating the international transfer of technology; and the role played by market access in determining economic prosperity.
He is currently the Harold T. Shapiro *64 Professor in Economics in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is an international research associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, a research associate of the NBER international trade and investment program, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a research associate of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and an international research fellow of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Prior to joining Princeton University, he was a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize Fellowship during 2001-4 for his research on international trade and economic growth and a Global Economic Affairs Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in 2008. He was a visiting associate professor at the Department of Economics, Harvard University during Fall 2007, a Peter Kenen Fellow in International Economics at Princeton University during 2005-6, and a professor of economics at the Yale School of Management during 2008-9. He also worked as a research economist at the Bank of England, where his research on the relationship between international openness and economic growth was published as Openness and Growth, (eds) Proudman and Redding, Bank of England, London.
Publications in academic journals include the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Development Economics.


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Higher Levels Expected for Nikkei
Garrett Patten
There's far more clarity and opportunity in the market's pattern in Japan than in Europe.
Looking at two markets half a world apart through the lens of Elliott Wave analysis, we note a lot more clarity and opportunity in the pattern in Japan than in Europe.
Nikkei 225 Index
(INDEXNIKKEI:NI225) futures continue to be my favorite international play at the moment,
completing a very clean five waves
last week off the low. Price has not quite reached my ideal target for wave 2, but I would not be surprised to see a very shallow pullback here before rocketing higher in wave 3.
So, although I favor viewing wave 2 as incomplete and still need a c-wave back down to 14470 – 14335, it is very possible that wave 3 has started already.
If that is the case, price should continue higher into 14800 – 14915 as wave i of 3, consolidate briefly in wave ii of 3, and then begin the strongest portion of the rally in wave iii of 3 targeting 15375 – 15600.
If not long already, price pulling back under the ideal scenario into the blue target box should be viewed as a buying opportunity. It is possible that the c-wave even extends a bit lower, to the .500 - .618 retrace (14225 – 14115), but as long as price is above 14115, I will continue to strongly favor a move to new highs above the one made in May.
Approach Euro STOXX With Caution
The price structure in the Euro STOXX 50, by contrast, is
ugly at this time
, so caution is warranted. Price has barely pushed above the .618 extension in the blue count, and technicals continue to deteriorate, which means that anyone who is long at this time should make sure to protect profits in case of a breakdown.
As long as support continues to hold, though, this can keep pushing higher, which under the blue count should be towards 3108 to complete wave iii of 3. The red count, which suggests that we are dealing with a potential ending diagonal, presents resistance between here and the 3108 target, with 3065 being a potential turning region to complete wave c of 3.
If STOXX is unable to push through 3065, then I will be focusing primarily on the red count, with support for wave 4 at 2975. Falling below 2950 is our first signal of a potential breakdown.
See charts illustrating wave counts on the Nikkei and STOXX
Garrett Patten is a technical analyst and chief educator for ElliottWaveTrader.net, a live trading room featuring Elliott Wave analysis on market indices and stocks. Mr. Patten's focus is primarily on U.S. and international equity indices, and demonstrating the capabilities of unconventional technical analysis. His articles appear on sites including MarketWatch and SeekingAlpha.
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High School Sports: Track and field
High School Awards: Team captain ... senior class president ... athlete of the month honors.
Major at Washington: Construction management
Husky Rowing Experience: 2000 (Freshman) -- Rowed in the two seat in all-freshman varsity four that won a gold medal at the NCAA Championships ... during the regular season, rowed five seat in the novice eight that posted an undefeated season ... helped Huskies collect a sixth-straight Pac-10 Championship, eighth-straight Opening Day title and third-straight win at the San Diego Crew Classic ... defeated Cal in the annual dual at Redwood Shores and then raced a second time in the varsity four, to collect another win ... named Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year at the conclusion of the season ... trained for three weeks at the ARCO Olympic Training Center in San Diego during the summer. 2001 (Sophomore) -- Rowed four seat in the junior varsity eight that won a silver medal and helped UW win the team title at NCAA Championships ... crew was undefeated all season, earning victories at Pac-10 Championships, Windermere Cup, San Diego Crew Classic and three dual regattas ... rowed five seat all season until NCAA Championships when she moved to four ... earned honorable mention All-Pac-10 Academic honors. 2002 (Junior) -- Rowed five seat in the varsity eight that captured the NCAA National Championship ... member of the varsity eight that went undefeated during the regular season ... won the 11th consecutive gold medal for Washington's varsity eight at Pac-10's ... Helped the Huskies collect victories at the Cal, Wisconsin, Washington State and Oregon duals, and also at the Windermere Cup.
National Team Experience: Earned a spot on the U.S. National Team and rowed, along with Husky teammates Anna Mickelson and Mary Whipple, in the women's eight that finished fourth at the 2001 World Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland ... won U.S. Nationals, versus Canadian National Team ... reunited with the women's eight to compete in and win the 2001 Head of the Charles in Boston.
Personal: Daughter of Janine and Cliff Hurn, who both attended UW ... father was a Husky rower from 1969-72 ... older brother, Hans, was on the UW men's rowing team from 1998-01 ... grandparents also attended UW ... also has a younger brother, Stefan (18) and a younger sister, Erika ... mother is a nurse and father is self-employed ... member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
I chose Washington because: I wanted to be near my older brother.
The best thing about Seattle is: I can still go home to do my laundry.
The best thing about UW is: Husky football games!
My best race was: At the NCAA Championships in 2002 when we finished first.
After I graduate, I plan to: Work for a great contracting company.
If I could tell my incoming teammates one thing, it would be:Don't ever be late to practice.
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- 3-day Harley-Davidson independent tour of Florida Keys
- Ride a round-trip route from Miami to Key West aboard an iconic American motorcycle
- Choose from a selection of popular Harley-Davidson motorcycles such as the Road King
- Travel along the Overseas Highway and gaze down at the sunkissed Gulf of Mexico
- Stop along the way to check out beautiful Key Largo and Florida City
- Enjoy 3-star biker-friendly hotel accommodation in central Key West
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There's no better way to enjoy the islands than on two wheels. Feel the sun on your skin and the wind blowing through your hair while enjoying unobstructed views of the coast. Florida Keys has scenery and culture plus eclectic food, salsa music and steel-drum bands. Soak it up and enjoy the ride!
What You Can Expect
Make your own way to the rental shop in downtown Miami and, after a quick safety and orientation briefing, put on your helmet and choose your Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Models include the Electra Glide Classic, Street Glide, Road King, Heritage Softail Classic, Softail Fat Boy and Low Rider. The rental staff will help pick out a bike that suits you best.
Then, jump on board and hit the road! Your tank is full and you will be given a lock to use throughout your tour. Pass alongside Miami Beach and ride out of the city toward the famous Florida Keys. Follow the Overseas Highway — a road every serious rider aspires to ride — over the sun-drenched Gulf of Mexico to Key Largo. Take a break to ogle the surroundings, and perhaps pay a visit to the African Queen, the iconic sailboat immortalized in the 1951 Katherine Hepburn film of the same name.
Continue over dozens of bridges and alongside stretches of coastline, admiring the Atlantic Ocean on one side and Florida Bay on the other. Check in to your accommodation in Key West, and relax overnight. If you're ready to party, Key West is considered one of the most lively places in the US.
Overnight: 3-star Best Western, Holiday Inn or Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Key West
Day 2: Key West
The day is yours to savor the beauty of the Florida Keys and do as little or as much riding as you want. Hang out in Key West, the southernmost US city, and discover its bohemian ambiance and Caribbean-influenced cuisine. The side streets around eclectic Duval Street boast quirky cafes and alfresco restaurants that hawk gourmet specialties, ethnic snacks, shrimps, burgers and more.
Overnight: 3-star Best Western, Holiday Inn or Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Key West
Day 3: Key West – Key Largo – Florida City – Miami
Wave goodbye to Key West and start your ride back to Miami. Your route passes along Highway 1, the longest north-south road in the US. Hugging the Atlantic coastline and taking in the Overseas Highway, the road passes through Key Largo and Florida City, and both destinations make for an ideal stop-off to break up your journey. Soak up the region's ambiance and history, perhaps stopping to visit city museums that document Florida's Conch, Cuban and Bahamian cultures.
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July 4th will be a day I'll remember for a number of reasons: primarily the day I graduated. This day one year ago I graduated with a BA (Hons) in Photography from University of Ulster. It was bitter sweet, to say the least. I got my certificate (it's currently still in an envelope, in a box amongst some books, back in Belfast), got some photographs, had a couple of glasses of wine, spent the day with someone who made me happy, met some friends for a pint or two, and had an early night. It was also the beginning of the end in many ways…
Me. Graduated
The past year has been very difficult and traumatic at times, but, as a friend said today: "Here's to a year since graduation. What a f*cking year but look where we are now xx".
And she's right! It's only just started, but look where I am now.
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Describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the conclusion of certain missions (official staff visits, in most cases to member countries). Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually annual) consultations under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, in the context of a request to use IMF resources (borrow from the IMF), as part of discussions of staff monitored programs, and as part of other staff reviews of economic developments.
2011 Article IV Consultation with Japan
June 7, 2011
Concluding Statement of the IMF Mission
The Great East Japan earthquake has brought Japan's nascent recovery to a halt. The Japanese authorities have responded swiftly to stabilize markets and activity has begun to recover. The outlook, however, remains uncertain due to lingering supply disruptions and weak sentiment. Against this backdrop, fiscal policy should aim to quickly address supply side constraints while committing to a credible medium-term strategy to bring down the high level of public debt. Additional easing by the Bank of Japan and an acceleration of structural reforms would support a robust recovery. This statement summarizes the staff's findings, including economic spillovers from Japan to the rest of the world, which will be more fully discussed in the forthcoming IMF Article IV staff report.1
I. Outlook and Risks
1. The economy continues to face headwinds from the shock of the earthquake but is set to recover strongly in the second half of this calendar year. Supply disruptions, electricity shortfalls, and weak demand are likely to hold back economic activity for some time. However, over the summer the economy is expected to recover sharply as supply conditions normalize and reconstruction spending picks up. The recovery will continue in 2012 as the resumption of exports lifts domestic demand and reconstruction spending continues. On this basis, we forecast GDP growth to slow to -0.7 percent in 2011 before rising to 2.9 percent in 2012 (see Table 1 overleaf).2 Headline inflation is expected to be around zero percent in 2011 and 2012. Underlying inflation—excluding food and energy—is, however, projected to remain negative as a result of the still wide output gap.
2. Spillovers to other countries from supply disruptions are expected to be short-lived. The earthquake was felt globally, and especially in Asia, as shortages of many high-tech inputs from Japan slowed overseas production, particularly of automobiles and electronics. With industrial production showing signs of turning around, exports will likely pick up soon, limiting the risk of a sustained disruption to regional production networks.


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- Address: No.88 Shishan Road, Suzhou New District, Suzhou
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Opened in 2008, the Wealthy All Suite Hotel Suzhou is located in the High-Tech Development Zone in Suzhou, adjacent to Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Suzhou Amusement Land, and Hanshan Temple. It is 8 km from the city center and Suzhou Railway Station.
The Wealthy All Suite Hotel Suzhou offers 200 guest rooms. All rooms are provided with free broadband Internet access, safe box, minibar, and hair dryer and other service amenities.
As for dining, the hotel offers a Chinese restaurant, café, bar, and a lobby bar, and meal delivery service is available. Other facilities in the hotel include a business center, meeting room, parking lot, and fitness center. The Wealthy All Suite Hotel Suzhou also provides service such as foreign currency exchange, ticket booking, and postal, among others.
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The Razzie Foundation has just announced the 2014 crop of nominations for the worst films and performances of the past year. The 34th annual Golden Raspberry Awards nominees were named Wednesday in Hollywood, on the eve of Thursday's Oscar nominations announcement. The Razzie Awards are typically also handed out the day before the Academy Awards ceremony on March 2, according to E! News on Jan. 15.
While the Oscar nominations are set to be announced in the wee hours of the morning on the west coast, it's likely the actors and movies listed below won't be among them.
The Razzie Foundation has awarded "Grown-Ups 2" with an unheard of eight nominations, including acting nods for Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek, Taylor Lautner and Nick Swardson.
First-time nominees include Johnny Depp, Naomi Watts, Jaden Smith and Selena Gomez. Meanwhile, ABC News noted that Sylvester Stallone received his 31st, earning three nods for this year alone.
Worst Actor
Adam Sandler, "Grown-Ups 2"
Johnny Depp, "The Lone Ranger"
Ashton Kutcher, "Jobs"
Jaden Smith, "After Earth"
Sylvester Stallone, "Bullet to the Head," "Escape Plan" and "Grudge Match"
Worst Actress
Lindsay Lohan, "The Canyons"
Halle Berry, "The Call" and "Movie 43"
Selena Gomez, "Getaway"
Tyler Perry, "A Madea Christmas"
Naomi Watts, "Diana" and "Movie 43"
Worst Supporting Actress
Lindsay Lohan, "InAPPropriate Comedy" and "Scary Movie 5"
Lady Gaga, "Machete Kills"
Salma Hayek, "Grown-Ups 2"
Katherine Heigl, "The Big Wedding"
Kim Kardashian, "Tyler Perry's Temptation"
Worst Supporting Actor
Taylor Lautner, "Grown-Ups 2"
Chris Brown, "Battle of the Year"
Larry the Cable Guy, "A Madea Christmas"
Nick Swardson, "A Haunted House and Grown-Ups 2"
Worst Picture
"Movie 43"
"After Earth"
"Grown-Ups 2"
"The Lone Ranger"
"A Madea Christmas"
Lindsay Lohan's comeback took a hit as she managed to score nominations for three movies as both worst actress and worst supporting actress.
Click here for the full list of this year's Razzie nominees. What movies and performances would you add to the list?


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The ceremony captured in this photograph was part of the revitalization of Philadelphia's North Fifth Street "El BLoque de Oro," or "Golden Block," initiated by the Spanish Merchants Association of Philadelphia (SMA) during the 1970s. The Association was established to help Puerto Rican and Latino entrepreneurs and later took on housing and industrial development projects. At far left is a young Nelson Diaz, who in 1972 was the first Puerto Rican to graduate from the Law School of Temple University. In addition to his association with some of Philadelphia's bigger law firms, Diaz's prolific legal career included service as a Philadelphia Common Pleas judge, city solicitor and general counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton administration.
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The 3-1-3 program at The State University of New York at Fredonia is a time-shortened, combined high school and college course of study which can lead to a B. A. or B. S. degree in three years after high school graduation. This is possible because the college gives credit for the successful completion of selected high school courses and the high school allows successfully completed college English and social science courses to count toward the high school diploma. Therefore, the name 3-1-3 means three years of high school, three years of college and one transitional year during which the student is enrolled simultaneously at his/her high school and at the college.
The original design of the 3-1-3 program has remained essentially unchanged. Most students take an English and a social science class at the college each semester to meet N.Y.S. requirements for graduation. Many students choose a third college class which meets their interests and fits future plans. All students are strongly encouraged, when they select college courses in the spring, to complete a fourth year of math and science in their high school both because it can be counted for college credit when it is a part of the complete 3-1-3 year and because it keeps a wider array of academic options open for them.
In schools which offer Advanced Placement courses, many 3-1-3 students combine on-campus classes with high school A.P. classes for a rigorous and valuable senior year. All 3-1-3 students select a class schedule with close advisement from both 3-1-3 advisers and high school guidance counselors. In fact, after applicants have been admitted, the 3-1-3 advisers and director go to the individual high schools, in May and June, so that the college schedule will be as compatible as possible with both the. high school classes the student wants and with his/her extracurricular activities.
Beginning with a general information meeting about the 3-1-3 program which is held on campus each February, and continuing through the special orientation held for enrolled students each August, parents are also invited to be a part of the decisions being made by their 3-1-3 student.


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Towing refers to an ability in Grand Theft Auto games to tow or pull an object, specifically a trailer or vehicle, using another vehicle. This ability was first made possible in Grand Theft Auto 2, when semi-trailer trucks possess the ability to pull trailers, but only one game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, similarly offers such a feature.
Attachments with trailers simply require the player reverse their truck into the front of a trailer until the camera readjusts itself to center on both the truck and the trailer, confirming the coupling is complete. When pulling a trailer, the truck will possess even poorer performance due to the need to pull extra weight, especially with regards with steering as the vehicle is now longer.
In GTA 2, the Truck Cab and the Truck Cab SX represent the game's only two semi-trailer trucks, and are also the only vehicles in GTA 2 capable of attaching to and pulling trailers. After a trailer is attached to a truck, the trailer cannot be detached.
The game features three forms of trailers:
- Container, a container trailer.
- Tanker, a tanker trailer for liquid loads.
- Transporter, a flat bed trailer, some of which may carry actual vehicles.
GTA San Andreas
GTA San Andreas is the only game after GTA 2 to reintroduced the ability to pull loads. The game mechanics of attaching to and pulling a trailer is roughly the same as in GTA 2, but trailers may decouple from a vehicle if physical force (i.e. jackknifing, dislodging due to rough terrains or jumps, excessive speed, etc.) is applied.
Along with the game's three semi-trailer trucks (the Linerunner, Tanker and Roadtrain), the game also introduces a different range of vehicles with roughly the same capability, including:
- The Tow Truck, which employs an adjustable boom at the back to pull any large vehicle.
- The Tractor, which uses an adjustable tow hitch to pull smaller hauls or large vehicles.
- The Utility Van, Baggage and Tug, which feature a stationary tow hitch to pull smaller hauls.
The trailers themselves consist of a wider range of items, some of which are no available unless they are spawned using a third-party trailer.
- Articulated Trailer, a trailer designed to carry solid loads. The trailer is available in three forms, two fully covered and one hopper.
- Tanker Trailer, a fuel tank trailer featuring Xoomer livery.
Specialized trailers
- Farm Trailer, a plow intended to be pulled by a Tractor.
- Utility Trailer, an unspecified utility trailer mostly likely intended for the Utility Van.
- Tug Stairs, a mobile staircase commonly found in airports, and intended for the Baggage and Tug.
- Baggage Box, a luggage box (available open or closed) commonly found in airports, and intended for the Baggage and Tug.


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Katy from A Shade of Teal found this sturdy wood piece at a yardsale. It wasn't exactly clear what it was–empty picture frame? headboard?–but under the 80's tole painting job it had great lines and detail. Katy thought it would make a terrific chalkboard.
She was right! Covered in a new coat of pretty coral paint with a chalkboard in the middle, this piece looks like it was meant to be. I especially love how much those pretty curved details on the frame pop out thanks to the contrast of the black chalkboard center paired with the coral frame. It's stunning.
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Elizabeth Olsen
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"They're my sisters. They're great people. I love my family; we're very close. But we do very different things."
- Elizabeth Olsen
Ask most people what they know about Elizabeth Olsen, and they'll likely tell you that she's Mary-Kate and Ashley's younger, far-less-famous sister, if anything at all. But after 2011's star-making turn in the Sundance hit Martha Marcy May Marlene, Olsen is one of the most coveted young actresses in Hollywood, with seven feature film appearances under her belt since her 2011 debut. She's already the most talented of the Olsen sisters, and is on her way to being the most famous too.
Elizabeth Olsen BiographyIf Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were trying to groom their younger sister to follow in their footsteps, they only half succeeded. Though Elizabeth Olsen spent much of her youth hanging out on the set of, and sometimes even appearing in her mogul sisters' regrettable direct-to-video series, The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley, she decided to carve her own path in show business, rather than rely on her famous family's clout. Olsen studied theater as a kid and would later graduate from the Atlantic Theatre Company and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, the same school that her sisters dropped out of. So while her sisters have eschewed acting for careers in fashion, Elizabeth Olsen has emerged as the best cinematic hope for the family.
elizabeth olsen breaks out at sundanceEvery year, Sundance gives rise to a group of relative unknowns whose performances, scripts or directorial efforts in under-the-radar films catapult them to the forefront of the film industry. This year, Elizabeth Olsen -- who starred in not one but two of the most talked-about films at the festival -- headed that list. Her powerful performance in Martha Marcy May Marlene as a disenchanted former cult member seeking to reintegrate herself back into society was made all the more remarkable by her lack of experience on-screen. The former theater student (Olsen did children's theater and high-school plays growing up in L.A.) had only two films under her belt when Martha Marcy May Marlene premiered: Silent House, which also had its premiere at Sundance, and Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, a low-budget indie that has been shelved until later this year. But it's her performance in Martha Marcy May Marlene -- which led to comparisons to a young Maggie Gyllenhaal -- that has Hollywood abuzz, especially after the film performed equally as well at this year's Cannes.
elizabeth olsen becomes one of the most in-demand young actresses in hollywoodElizabeth Olsen may have spent the majority of her life living in the shadows of those pesky Olsen twins, but she's already won the critics' approval with her indie performances and is now moving on to conquer the mainstream film world.
Don't worry, Mary-Kate and Ashley. We're sure Elizabeth will let you touch her Oscar one day. Just ask nicely.


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College Hockey:Plattsburgh's Houle named D-III women's national coach of the year for fifth time
Plattsburgh's Kevin Houle has been named STX/AHCA national Division III women's coach of the year for the fifth time.
The announcement was made Thursday night at the student-athlete banquet for the 2014 NCAA Division III women's championship in Plattsburgh, N.Y.
In the 2013-14 season, Houle has led the Cardinals to their second-straight ECAC West championship and fourth overall with a 25-1-1 record.
Houle received his sixth conference coach of the year honor in a year that saw Plattsburgh sit atop the USCHO.com Division III Women's Poll for 17 straight weeks.
The Cardinals are making their 10th NCAA tournament appearance this weekend and Houle enters the semifinals with a 259-40-20 career record and his .843 winning percentage ranks first among all active women's hockey coaches.
His previous AHCA coach of the year awards came in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2013.
The runner-up for this year's award was Tom Palkowski of St. Thomas.
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Hello ,
I' ve never used DPP before. Is this worthy to include this app in workflow?
I usualy working on LR i PS combo.
Dpp new features like lens optimizer make me curious - any thoughts about from more exprienced users?
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You can spend a Sunday with the sounds of Verdi, Copland, Dvorak and Beethoven as the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra revives its outdoor concert event. Warming up for its 35th season, the orchestra will be led by guest conductor Awadagin Pratt, a renowned conductor, pianist and violinist who has performed from the White House to "Sesame Street." Baritone singer Stephen Salters will join in on the performance, and Beacock Music will provide a musical instrument "petting zoo" for children to try out instruments themselves.
When: 3 p.m. Sunday.
Where: Esther Short Park, 301 W. Eighth St., Vancouver.
Admission: Free.
Telephone: 360-735-7278
Web: http://vancouversymphony.org
The concert is one of many options for getting out and about this weekend.
2. Fun and safety
September is National Preparedness Month, and the Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency hopes to help the community prepare for a disaster with Ready Clark Expo and Open House. Visitors can take a tour of the 9-1-1 dispatch center, try hands-on children's activities and preparedness games, watch K-9 police dog demonstrations, along with appearances by search-and-rescue animals and rescue vehicle displays including bomb squad robots.
When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today.
Where: CRESA, 710 W. 13th St., Vancouver.
Admission: Free.
Web: http://cresa911.org
3. Working for peace
Celebrating 10 years of promoting a more hopeful world, the Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair will feature 70 community groups gathering to share their voices and ideas in an effort to bring peace and justice at home and around the world. The event features music, dance, local food, poetry, games and children's activities, including a performance by the band Mystic Canyon.
When: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.
Where: Esther Short Park, 301 W. Eighth St., Vancouver.
Admission: Free.
Web: http://vancouverpeaceandjusticefair.org
4. Community carnival
The annual Vancouver Sausage Festival at St. Joseph Catholic School kicks into high gear today, starting with a 5K fun run and a 1K kids dash. The festival features a carnival, beer garden, children's activities and an entertainment lineup that includes the Magenta Theater Band, Molly Malone-Irish Dancers and Hit Machine. On Sunday, the stage will be filled by Evergreen Dance Academy, Stardust Quartet, Dance Fusion, a hula hoop contest, and the Southwest Washington Got Talent Finale.
When: 8 a.m. 5K run, 8:30 a.m. 1K kids dash; festival 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. today and 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Where: St. Joseph Catholic School, 6500 Highland Drive, Vancouver.
Admission: $2, $1 with a non-perishable food donation, $20 for 5K, $25 for family of four, $10 for students.
Web: http://stjoevanschool.org/sausagefest.htm
5. A little love
Pacific Stageworks presents "The Mikado," a musical comedy about forbidden love, based on the 1885 opera. Ko-Ko, high lord executioner of Titipu, wishes to marry Yum-Yum, who is in love with Nanki-Poo, the Mikado's son who is disguised as a wandering minstrel.
When: 2 and 7:30 p.m. today and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Where: Love Street Playhouse, 126 Love St., Woodland.
Admission: $15 to $17.
Telephone: 360-213-5174.
Web: http://pacificstageworks.com
6. Deadly game of cat-and-mouse
Vin Diesel returns as the antihero Richard B. Riddick, survivalist and dangerous convict who was left for dead on a desolate planet teeming with alien predators. But as word of his location reaches the bounty hunters of the galaxy, Riddick turns his entrapment into a cage for revenge. "Riddick" is rated R.
Where: Battle Ground Cinema, 1700 S.W. Ninth Ave., Battle Ground; Cinetopia Mill Plain, 11700 S.E. Seventh St.; Cinetopia Vancouver Mall 23, 8700 N.E. Vancouver Mall Drive; various Regal Cinema locations.
Cost: Varies by location.
Telephone: Battle Ground Cinema, 360-666-7200; Cinetopia, 360-213-2800; Cinetopia Vancouver Mall 23, 360-448-4100; Regal Cinemas, 800-326-3264.
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She had a tough time at first. She tried to get more than one personal Chase card. But in the end, our newbie figured out how to do it and only pay the tax.
KATIE'S APS: Three cards – US Airways Chairman's Preferred Dividend Miles Premier World MasterCard, Hyatt Credit Card from Chase, Citi Hilton HHonors Reserve Card
ITINERARY OVERVIEW: Katie leaves Los Angeles on February 20 on US Airways and arrives in London the following day. She's booked a round-trip ticket and flies out on February 25.
February 20 – Round-Trip: Los Angeles – London
Cost: $1,546
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- Katie receives 40,000 miles after first spend
Explanation: After buying a quick cup of Starbucks coffee, Katie makes her first purchase and collects 40,000 bonus miles. An off-peak awards ticket from the U.S. to London is 35,000 miles. the FTG link is for 30K miles but this link from the "Rick"s Top Travel Deals" tab, provides 40,000 miles. The Chairman's Preferred card is 40,000 miles. Make sure you take the 40K bonus card.
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Out of Pocket Cost: Taxes
February 21 – Andaz Liverpool Street
Cost: $580.38 ($290.19 per night)
Method: Free Hyatt Nights
- Hyatt Credit Card from Chase– 2 Free Nights
- Katie receives 2 nights at a Hyatt after spending $1,000 within 3 months
Explanation: With the relatively low minimum spend of $1,000, Katie can get two free nights at a Hyatt. The Andaz Liverpool Street, which used to be the Great Eastern Hotel, is part of Hyatt. It's a great hotel right next to Liverpool Street Station and within walking distance of the London's east-end.
Out of Pocket Cost: $75 (annual fee)
February 23 – The Bentley London
Cost: $766 ($383 per night)
Method: Free Hilton Nights
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- Katie receives 2 weekend nights at a Hyatt after spending $2,500 within 4 months
Explanation: Katie could spend the rest of her time in London at the Andaz and spend several hundred bucks out of pocket, or she could move to the Bentley London in Kensington in South London and experience a different part of the city for free. After spending $2,500 in four months, Katie gets two free weekend nights at a Hilton.
Out of Pocket Cost: $95 (annual fee)
Katie could have extended her trip by another day or two by adding in the Hilton Amex. Four days in London for a first trip is a solid visit. Not bad for a first timer heading across the pond!
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We are housed in Glastonbury Tribunal in the High Street Glastonbury. Take time to visit and browse our range of quality souvenirs and books. Plan your visit with information books which you can purchase online (deliverable worldwide). We are ticket agents for many local attractions and events. Visit the Lake Village Museum on the first floor. Sit in our tranquil & secluded garden with its stone courtyard & wishing well. Garden available for wedding photography. Our Street Office is situated in the centre of Clarks Village (outlet shopping centre) Farm Road Street and has a variety of books and gifts. We are ticket agents at this centre also.


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Today's dish is full of flavor and is a comfort food chock full with healthier ingredients. The name of the dish is 'Tortilla Chip Casserole'. It takes an hour which serves 6 people for less than 400 calories. The ingredients include bell peppers, garlic, onion, tortilla chips, shredded cheese and more. Here is the recipe link http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/tortilla-chip-casserole-50400000125828/
Here is a review from an anonymous person. 'Absolutely amazing! I made it just as the recipe recommended, except I did not have coriander. Next time I make it, and there absolutely will be a next time, I will use the full can of black beans. I really can't imagine why it didn't call for that in the first place. The casserole is deliciously creamy and flavorful. A must try! Made it a second time with the coriander. I think it's better without. The coriander gives it an earthy taste I didn't love' http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/tortilla-chip-casserole-50400000125828/ratings/
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Marvel Studios is having quite the summer. Last weekend, 'Guardians of the Galaxy' had a superhero-strength opening, debuting at #1 at the box office in the United States. Suddenly, raccoons are in fashion, thanks to the Bradley Cooper-voiced character "Rocket."
Let us not forget when Marvel Studio's box office prominence began. It was way back in 2008 when Robert Downey, Jr. put on the Iron Man suit. This film, 'Iron Man,' was different from other comic book-inspired movies. Perhaps it's our age of the anti-hero, but audiences and critics agreed that this alcoholic, narcissistic, playboy Tony Stark was interesting.
So far, the peak earner has been 'Marvel's The Avengers' (2012), the sixth movie in the "Marvel Cinematic Universe." Who are the Avengers? In the 2012 Joss Whedon-helmed hit, our main heroes were Captain America, Black Widow, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, and Hawkeye. Four of those characters have had at least one solo movie released by Marvel Studios. Hawkeye is not one of them, but he is still raking in all sorts of attention.
In 2012, writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja began their run on 'Hawkeye' for Marvel Comics. Almost instantly, it became one of the most buzzed about comics. Just last month at San Diego Comic-Con, Faction and Aja won the Eisner Award for Best Single Issue ('Hawkeye #11: Pizza Is My Business').
How exactly is Hawkeye wielding his fame? Fraction has added a Hawkeye design to the tee shirt collection he curates for online retailer WeLoveFine. Fraction and his prolifically talented wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick, are part of the Mighty Fine Partners program.
The design is called "H Signs" and was inspired by the July 2014 issue #19 of 'Hawkeye.' The shirt spells out "Hawkeye" in American Sign Language. Once upon a time in the 1980s, Hawkeye sustained an injury that resulted in deafness.
In a press release issued by WeLoveFine's Nicole Campos, she noted: "In keeping with the sign language theme of the issue, Matt will be donating his curation commission for this particular style to the Signing Time Foundation, a charity whose efforts are dedicated toward making sign language fun and accessible to deaf children around the world."
This is not the first time that Hawkeye has come to the aid of the deaf community. In 2012, as reported by ABC Boston affiliate WCVB, Marvel Comics staff helped a New Hampshire mother to show her four-year-old son that even superheroes wear hearing aids. Christina D'Allesandro emailed Marvel Comics looking for a deaf superhero, to encourage her son. In an interview with 'The Huffington Post', Marvel editor Bill Rosemann shared that they sent D'Allesandro an image of the cover of 1984's "West Coast Avengers," in which Hawkeye is indeed wearing a hearing device.
The "H Signs" shirt costs just $25 and comes in both women's and men's sizes. Both can be found on Fraction's Mighty Fine Partners page on WeLoveFine.
Looking for a Hawkeye fix? Visit Comic Book Shop Locator to find your closest comic book shop. For digital comics, Marvel Unlimited offers various pricing packages. And don't forget your local library! Many libraries now have extensive comic book and graphic novel collections. You can search libraries around the world through WorldCat.