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Fri., March 23 -
Sat., March 24 -
Sun., March 25 -
Potential Starting Lineup
Notes 1
Diallo Fon
Has scored each time he reached base over three games 2
Robert Abel
Pac-10 leader with 11 SB. Is 11 for 11 in SB this year 3
C.J. Ziegler
Team leader with seven HRs 4
Bill Rhinehart
Team leader with .361 avg. Has 22 runs and 24 RBI 5
Brad Glenn
Team leader with 29 RBI 6
Erik Castro
Has 10 RBI in 20 games played 7
Colt Sedbrook
Batting .273 with seven RBI and 10 runs scored in 13 games 8
Dwight Childs
Hitting .260 with four 2Bs and eight runs scored 9
T.J. Steele
Hitting .300 with eight 2Bs and 14 RBI Pitching
RHP Preston Guilmet
4-0 with a 2.05 ERA and 41 Ks in 44 IP Sat
LHP Brad Mills
4-2 with a 2.88 ERA and 38 Ks in 34 1/3 IP Sun
LHP David Coulon
2-1 with a 4.03 ERA and 29 Ks in 29 IP CP
LHP Daniel Schlereth
1-0 with seven saves and a 0.69 ERA in 10 relief appearances this year
Last Time
The Wildcats held off Morehead State for a pair of one-run victories on Tuesday and Wednesday ... Arizona defeated MSU 5-4 on Tuesday and rallied for a ninth-inning 7-6 win on Wednesday ... As a team Arizona batted .259 with four doubles and a triple in the two-game set ... Individually, Brad Glenn led all players with a .600 average (3 for 5). He finished the series with a double, two RBI and two run scored including the game-winner on Wednesday ... Diallo Fon scored six runs and went 5 for 9 (.556) with a triple in the two games ... Freshman Kevin Rodland made good with his only AB of the series, driving in the game-winning run in the ninth inning on Wednesday with a one-out single to left ... On the mound Arizona posted a 4.50 team ERA and finished with 22 strikeouts against seven walks ... Reliever Cory Burns picked up a pair of wins in two appearances. The right-hander held MSU scoreless over 4 1/3 innings and finished with five Ks and no walks ... Closer Daniel Schlereth tallied his seventh save of the year with an inning of work on Tuesday.
Closing in on 1,000
A Quick Look at
The Bears head to Tucson with a 7-10 overall record ... NCU most recently split a double-header with Kansas, dropping the opener of the twin-bill 5-4 before rallying to win the finale, 4-2 ... As a team, the Bears are hitting .247 and averaging 5.7 runs, 8.6 hits and 5.2 RBI per game this year ... Individually, outfielder Zach Brockman paces the club with a .381 average in 11 games played. He leads the team with six doubles and two home runs and has ammased seven RBI and 12 runs scored ... On the mound, NCU has a 5.89 team ERA in 143 2/3 innings pitched ... The scheduled rotation for the weekend is RHP Chris Reap on Friday, RHP Jason Banks on Saturday and the Sunday starter TBA ... Head coach Kevin Smallcomb is in his fifth year at NCU and has posted a 113-118 record there.
The Wildcats and Bears have met 35 times on the baseball diamond dating back to 1954 ... UA owns a 32-3 edge in the all-time series and swept a three-game series in 2005, the most recent meeting between the two schools ... Although Arizona has dominated the all-time series, Northern Colorado took down what is perhaps the best team in UA history when it defeated the Wildcats 6-5 and 6-2 in the 1974 District 7 Regional of NCAA postseason play. The ?'74 Wildcats ended the regular season with school-best 58-4 overall record, but in dropping the two games to the Bears saw thier season come an abrupt end.
Hard Working Guys
Four different Wildcats have started all 24 games this season - Sr. Bill Rhinehart, So. Brad Glenn, Jr. C.J. Ziegler and Fr. Robert Abel. Last year Colt Sedbrook was the only UA player to have made 24 straight starts to open the year, and was the only UA player to start all 55 games.
Offensive Numbers
Heading into play this weekend, the Wildcats are batting .302 as a team and averaging 7.0 runs, 10.2 hits, 2.2 doubles and 6.2 RBI per game.
Looking For Some O
After opening the season on a tear, the Wildcat offense has sputtered a bit of late. Save for a 16-hit, 19-run outburst against Hawaii-Hilo on March 13, Arizona has been held to single digit hits and runs in five of its last six games, including a season-low three hits in a shutout loss at Hawaii on March 10. Despite the lack of offensive punch, UA has done enough to win games by going 5-1 over the six-game stretch, including a current win streak of four straight.
UA's Last Six Games
Result 3/9
at Hawaii
at Hawaii
at Hawaii
at Hawaii-Hilo
Morehead State
Morehead State
Manufacturing, Inc.
Even without a multitude of hits over the last six games
Winning the Close Ones
One-Run Success
Result 2/16
at Cal State Fullerton
at UNLV
W, 6-5 - 10 Innings 3/3
Eastern Michigan
at Hawaii
Morehead State
Morehead State
Now That's Getting it Done
The last 10 times Diallo Fon has safely reached base he has come around to score a run for the Wildcats, including a stretch of eight straight plate appearances over two games. Dating back to his final four ABs on March 13 at Hawaii-Hilo, Fon has collected six hits, including a pair of triples, walked three times and been hit by one pitch and scored every single time. Against
Fon's Last Three Games
3/13 - at Hawaii-Hilo
3/20 - Morehead St.
3/21 - Morehead St. 1
1B, SB, Run
1B, Run 2
1B, SB, SB, Run
1B, Run 3
RBI-3B, Run
3B, Run
HBP, Run
1B, Run
BB, Run
BB, Run
The Cats in the Pac
Heading into the week of play,
Touch ?'Em All
The Wildcats have hit 19 home runs in 24 games thus far. The middle part of the batting order - Bill Rhinehart (4 HR), C.J. Ziegler (7) and Brad Glenn (5) - have accounted for 16 of the 19 bombs, while Jon Gaston (2) and T.J. Steele (1) have added the other three. Last year it took UA 38 games to hit 19 home runs.
Needing That Triple
DH C.J. Ziegler has three times this year fallen a triple shy of hitting for the cycle. The junior went single, double and home run twice against
Two-Out Guy
Brad Glenn has racked up a team-best 29 RBI in 24 games this season. More impressive however is that 20 of the 29 runs driven in have come with two outs in an inning. For the year, Glenn is batting .415 with two outs, 63 points higher than his overall average of .352.
Abel to Steal a Bag
Freshman shortstop Robert Abel is 11 for 11 in stolen base tries this season to pace an
Back-To-Back Back-To-Back
C.J. Ziegler and Brad Glenn hit back-to-back home runs in back-to-back games earlier this season. Ziegler led off the ninth inning against
A year removed from having just one player hit multiple home runs in a contest (David Plante, at USC), three different Wildcats have gone yard at least twice in a game this season. Bill Rhinehart (2) and Brad Glenn (3) each hit multiple homers against
One Yard from History
Brad Glenn was already having a good day - 3 for 3, three home runs - when he strode to plate in the eighth inning against
Three-Homer Games at
April 7, 1972 - Dennis Haines at UTEP - 5-for-5, 4 R, 2B, 3 HRs, 3 RBI
March 20, 1974 - Ron Hassey vs.
April 8, 2000 - Erik Torres at Washington - 3-for-4, 4 R, 3 HR, 3 RBI
Feb. 23, 2001 - Shelley Duncan vs.
Feb. 7, 2007 - Brad Glenn vs.
Only Hassey and Duncan hit their HRs in consecutive ABs
Extra, Extra
In 24 games this season Arizona has posted at least one extra base hit in 23 of them ... UA has hit at least one double in 22 of 24 contests this season, including a season-high eight in the season-opener against Gonzaga ... The Wildcats hit eight doubles, three triples and a home run against Gonzaga on Feb. 2. The 12 extra base hits in that contest were the most put up by a UA squad in school history, eclipsing the previous high-water mark of 11 set by the 1985 and 2001 teams ... Junior DH C.J. Ziegler tied the UA single-game school record for doubles in his first career start on Feb. 2, swatting three two-baggers. He finished the contest 4 for 5 with three RBI and four runs scored.
Wearing It
Although they are behind last year's record-setting pace, the Cats have been hit by 36 pitches in 22 games thus far. The opposition has hit
Glenn Named Pac-10 Player of the Week
Sophomore Brad Glenn was named the Feb. 13 Pac-10 Player of the Week by the conference office. In UA's five games vs. Utah Valley State and New Mexico, the UA outfielder went 9-for-17 (.529) with a double, three home runs (all in one game), eight RBI and four runs scored. He finished the week with a 1.118 slugging percentage and also drew two walks and was hit by four pitches to help lead to a .652 on base percentage.
Pitching Numbers
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One thing America does not need is a police state dominated by militarized law enforcement officers. Such a scenario is just as much an aspect of tyranny as a powerful centralized government that dominates the entire society. Such a police state is precisely what the residents of Ferguson, Mo., angered by the shooting of an unarmed young person, are seeking to address and correct. The question is, is there room for collaboration between patriots who also have a big problem with a police state and the residents of Ferguson who believe that the shooting is a consequence of a militarized police force?
Citizens in East St. Louis and Ferguson have a history of clashes with police, at least in recent history. Added to the obvious negativity, distrust, and suspicions of these citizens is the recent militarization of the local police. Those who are already predisposed toward a deep distrust of police believe that the recent militarization has only confirmed their worst suspicions. It hardly serves that cause of peace and good relationships when residents see cops with whom they have had run-ins in the past are now seen wearing military helmets and gear, body armor, and riding around in armored military style vehicles carrying heavy duty fire power. In fact, this is enough to push a volatile situation over the edge into deadly violence in the streets.
Liberty minded citizens have also weighed in on numerous occasions concerning the alarming push by the federal government to arm and equip local police departments with military grade weapons, vehicles, and gear. Granted, in the Ferguson case, too much remains unknown to pass judgment as of yet. It may well turn out that the deceased was engaged in a deadly confrontation with the police officer who shot him. It may also turn out that the police officer in question was too quick on the draw and made a huge mistake. The problem is that this "mistake," if it turns out that's what it was, resulted in the death of a citizen. If this is the case, it is totally unacceptable.
But for obvious reasons it is best for everyone involved to wait until full investigations are complete before passing judgment. There will be plenty enough time for rage and denunciations if it is determined that this killing was the result of an overly eager militarized police. As for now, it is always best to wait until all of the facts are in.
At the same time, however, the residents of Ferguson already have cause for concern. And their concern is shared by liberty oriented citizens all over the country. A militarized police force is a danger to liberty and human life. It is certainly not one of the marks of a free society. Further, the residents of Ferguson must ask themselves some soul searching questions. If the police have such fire power and equipment, is it not also important that ordinary citizens who wish to protect their lives and that of their families and friends also have adequate fire power? Black Americans who survived the Civil Rights Movement during an era when police officers were often members of the KKK by night were able to protect themselves and their families by one thing alone -- firearms. Read the life story of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and you will find the truth about Blacks in Birmingham during the scourge of Police Chief Bull Connor. Rice states that her father and others in their community protected themselves and their families with guns. Had you lived in Birmingham in the 1960s, you would have done the same thing.
Thus, there are some basic concepts that both the patriots and the Black residents of Ferguson, and many other cities, have in common. The right to own and possess a firearm and ammo is one of the most basic. So is the right to be wary of a militarized police and to work toward its dismantling. And citizens always have a right to peacefully assemble, especially to protest actions of the government. Perhaps strong ties can be formed between the liberty patriots and Blacks based upon these core principles. It could turn into a powerful alliance.
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David: What about process modeling? I've seem some people starting from a business process model and using that to derive both requirements and possibly first cut architectures for the application as a whole?
Ted: Our view on MDA is a little bit different. We believe there should be a standard set of data underneath. In traditional MDA you have your design data in a separate repository and then you have to generate all this code for implementation. A lot of the time that disconnect causes problems with changes being made later, or the design going out of date, or developers not wanting to use it because they don't want to go back to this big modeller, they have a change they just want to do quickly in code.
We do have solutions today. One of our consulting departments has built a product called JHeadStart, and that will allow you to draw a business flow diagram and it will generate a Java application for you. But we're really trying to figure out the problem. Look at Struts, which is a popular controller. It's basically driven by an XML config file. So today in 10g, let's say the three of us are working on a project. I can come in and check out the struts-config.xml, and I can hand edit that XML file because I know Struts and I know the XML and I'm fine with that, I'll check that back in. The next day you could check that thing out, and maybe you're not familiar with Struts or just don't like working with XML, you could just bring up a Struts dialog editor, see that same information, edit it, and check that back in. And then finally a third person can come the next day and work in a visual environment and draw page flows. It's all exactly the same struts-config.xml file, so our different developer preferences don't effect the development, we're all working off the standard core data.
Moving beyond 10g, let's picture we've added a business modeller into the product. We've taken our state diagrams, and now someone else can come in and draw a high-level abstract drawing of the page flow in the application. In traditional MDA you'd save that as separate metadata and then generate stuff that the three of us could work on later. In the mode that we're going towards you'd actually save that in a struts-config.xml file, and in our development style fill in the blanks and actually build that implementation. Now when the business person comes back and looks at it again, they see their abstracted view, but it's all the same data, there's no sync problem, there's no overhead of MDA. In the same way that we're trying to make UML usable, we're trying to do the same thing with MDA. In the meantime we do have the traditional MDA tools.
Tim: What about MDA concepts like the platform independent model?
Ted: Metadata does allow you to do some platform-independent stuff if you want to, it does separate your business logic from the code, but in general MDA products, if you look at the WebPutty's, the AltoWebs and those kind of things, they are very good at a particular type of application. They are normally databound, they can get your input fields, and your search fields pretty quickly, but as soon as you want to extend that or integrate that into something like an eBusiness suite or some custom apps, it breaks down. It breaks down so severely that people just end up throwing them out and not using them. A lot of those companies have struggled. Our focus is to build a dynamic platform you could build any application on, and then adding structure on top for particular types of application. We always allow the access down below to be able to extend it any way you need to if you have that knowledge.
David: I guess that's what went wrong with the old CASE tools, people couldn't carry the overhead of maintaining the diagrams.
Ted: Exactly. There's strict MDA, and then some analysts have defined the term MDD, Model Driven Development, which I like. MDA is an acronym that the http://www.omg.org OMG owns, and they're very strict over what it means. But model driven development makes sense. Having something where you can get proven patterns and architectures that you agree upon, and then have that drive your actual implementation, is a great idea. It's just that when people have heard of this in the past they think, OK, I'm going to design something abstractly, save the data, and then generate implementation. And then everyone generated a whole bunch of code. We're trying to not generate code. What we do instead is generate metadata. We have the code, we have ADF which is a set of libraries running on the server, and it's code that can interpret metadata. We want to generate more metadata. It's the same metadata you use in the lower levels to build your application. The metadata drives the code, whereas as soon as you start generating a lot of code you run into maintenance headaches.
Tim: What about refactoring and pattern-based tools in JDeveloper?
Ted: In the next version which you should see sometime this year, the JDeveloper IDE has full-blown refactoring. As far as templating goes, it is something that we're interested in. In 10g one of the things behind our UML modellers is a new transformation engine. You can create today in JDeveloper a standard UML diagram, and you can say, "convert this to Java". It'll generate the Java for you and from that point on the diagram is working off the Java code, it's synchronised. That generation and transformation is all done in our new transformation engine. The engine itself is capable of transforming anything into anything, XML to Java, UML to XML, whatever it happens to be.
We are going to start building on that and combine it with a templating engine that we have, and giving much more flexibility with the ability to generate back-end design patterns from templates as well as the front end, pages and page flows. That's something we see big value in.
Tim: When will the next major release appear?
Ted: We haven't announced this yet. We're thinking about breaking down into different versions to appeal to different audiences, so having like a pure IDE version which is just like an IntelliJ or an Eclipse, just to let the coders code, and a J2EE version which adds the application server to allow you to build EJBs and servlets and JSP pages. And then a Studio version which is full ADF. Those things may be on different release dates, but you'll start to see the next JDeveloper late this year, with the next version of ADF Studio coming probably Q1, Q2 next year.
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We invite you to bite into your favorite sandwich, for today is Sandwich Day. The sandwich is truly a great creation. Sandwiches are a daily luncheon staple for millions of Americans.
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Instructions:Place chocolate in large heat-proof bowl. Bring cream to a boil in heavy-bottom saucepan over medium-high heat; pour directly over chocolate. Allow to sit 10 minutes, then use a rubber spatula to stir chocolate and cream until combined.
Pour mixture into shallow dish; refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes.
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In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio, the titular Venetian merchant, mortgages his pound of flesh to the Jewish moneylender Shylock for 3,000 ducats ($300,000 in today's money) to fund his impecunious friend Bassanio's amorous pursuit of Portia, a rich heiress in Belmont. Near the play's end, when Antonio is unable to pay his debt on time and Shylock is unyielding in his demand for Antonio's "carrion flesh," both parties appeal to the Duke, the city's supreme authority. Sympathetic to Antonio's plight, the Duke asks Shylock to show mercy. Shylock, a good economist that he is, responds
What judgment shall I dread in doing no wrong?
You have among you many a purchas'd slave,
Which (like your asses, and your dogs and mules)
You use in abject and slavish part,
Because you bought them…
[S]o do I answer you:
The pound of flesh (which I demand of him [Antonio])
Is dearly bought, 'tis mine and I will have it:
If you deny me, fie upon your law!
Although the Yale literary critic Harold Bloom reminds us that the play simply is a romantic comedy, not as some Marxist critics would have it, an attack on an unjust economic system, it is hard to deny the play's economic subtext. At issue is whether the market should be so unfettered, so untethered, so free in every respect, that anything and anyone can be bought and sold like a cheap commodity.
Arguments for and against the self-regulation of the adult film industry take a similar form. Who should protect workers' health – the market or the government?
According to economist Alexander Padilla, adult performers rationally weigh the cost and benefit of withholding their health information from employers and partners. In an industry where disclosure of one's HIV is career ending, an HIV-positive adult performer will falsify information about his or her health status because the expected benefits of remaining employable outweigh the expected costs.
But withholding information creates the problem of adverse selection for non-HIV adult performers, who are going to be exposed to higher risk of infection. Therefore, to protect their reputation and profits, industry participants agree to coordinate by setting and enforcing strict uniform standards, such as mandatory monthly STD testing for every employee—and all this without government's unduly and officious meddling.
Although Padilla's argument for self-regulation does appear to solve the industry's information and coordination problems, it doesn't solve the negative externality problem. What the argument fails to address is much more fundamental: Who pays when there is an HIV outbreak? Not the industry, because the question of liability is legally tricky. But if not the industry, then who? In a word: society.
Let's consider California. According to the state's department of public health, there are 164,793 reported cases of AIDS between 1983 and 2012.To assist low-income individuals with treatment expenses, the federal and state governments have adopted a number of programs. One such program is the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), which in 2012 had a national budget of $2 billion, of which $445 million went to California, or about $2,700 to each HIV-positive Californian. When costs like these are socialized onto the taxpayers who have to subsidize treatments for HIV sufferers, there's a potential for inefficiency due to negative externality.
For all its virtues—and there are attractive ones—a policy of self-regulation in the adult film industry is in the final analysis problematic: society ultimately has to pay the long-term cost of HIV/AIDS care for infected adult performers. Short of outright regulation, policymakers should strike a balance, a delicate one to be sure, between necessary interference and free enterprise.


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Colorado House Judiciary Committee members must be exhausted. A couple of intense medical marijuana hearings recently and now a late-nighter over HB 1364, Continuation of the Sex Offender Management Board.
In a marathon hearing last Thursday, committee members heard testimony from experts and others in a fight over the words no known cure as it appears in the current statute.
Victim's assistance groups want no known cure to reside in the bill. According to the Denver Post," therapists and probation officers say a bill that would remove statutory language that there is "no known cure" for sex offenders could erode the state's commitment to adequately protect residents from rapists and pedophiles."
"The simple fact is, if the House bill removes the three words "no known cure", it diminishes the strength of our ability to treat, manage and contain convicted, adult repeat sex offenders," said Greig Veeder, executive director for the treatment group Teaching Humane Existence."
The law currently authorizes the board to establish procedures to evaluate, treat and monitor sex offenders and says, "There is no known cure for the propensity to commit sex abuse".
The good news: no known cure is back in the bill. The bad news: Sexual violence is a pervasive problem. According to the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance, Public safety must be a priority in managing these offenders. Public safety involves the protection of previous victims and prevention of new victimization.
I'm all for giving the Sex Offender Management Board every tool they need to reign in an incurable criminal population. If three little words on a piece of legislation will make a difference in keeping the public safe - it's a very good thing that someone was paying attention.


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January 30th, 2012 1:48 AMJuicy
lol, I'm a celebrity!
Nice and then not nice... Although I'd think there'd be lots of jobs if there's so many tourists around but evidently I'd be wrong :( I always thought the most beautiful place in the world was infront of me, facing me the view is simply marvelous. Good ol' XP, we still use that on our desktop as well! But laptops are so much easier and more convenient.
Ahh, that's cool! Needs more One Piece though :3 But then again I think everything needs more One Piece...
I must agree with you there, the manga is better than the anime but I find it awkward to read and eat at the same time so the anime is a lot easier to watch with lunch which I find awfully fun. Food + One Piece = Happy Charlie. The dub doesn't exist. We'll just leave it at that. Except the song, for some reason I really like the original dub theme song xD
Currently all I pay attention to is One Piece and History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi but I did enjoy Rurouni Kenshin, Gurren Lagann, Dragon Ball/Z, Code Geass, Samurai Champloo and a few others but not too many. You?
If you're not just after anime thennnnnn I can't be bothered listing 'em but I've been watching How I Met Your Mother recently.
January 29th, 2012 5:37 PMChloè
I think I remember Charliezard... See your not that un-well known. haha. :D
Well, I'm a pro barista, and I have excellent customer service experience, but the problem is, it's so hard to find a job in Michigan right now... It's just...blah...And I live in the most beautiful place in the world. (We just won that....It's kind of annoying...too many tourists) I have a laptop...but it's broken.. XD I'm using oldschool XP on a desktop instead of my Windows 7... It's hard.. it really is.
I draw anime stuffs.... Old Deviantart New Deviantart I do a little pixeling as well... it's something i've always loved doing. And I must say. That is the most beautiful image I have ever seen in my entire life.
I love One Piece. I love the manga a little more than the anime...and the dub is just horrific...yes...he has a lollipop in his mouth...thats soooo believable... .
Any other series you like?
January 29th, 2012 12:21 AMJuicy
I've been here since 2007 on Charliezard and I'm not exactly well known either :P Effort must be taken in getting to know people before you'll become well known!
Ohh, a resume? You just writing it for the future or do you have somewhere in mind that you want to work? (Or do you just want to work but don't care where as long as they pay you?) New laptops > Resume writing fo' sure... The problem most people have is that without a job they can't get that new laptop and without a resume they can't get a job and without writing a resume they won't have a resume and ahhhhh!
What chu drawin'? If you have a look at my sig you'll see some of my brilliant artwork. I focus on capturing emotion and feeling more than physical aspects of what I'm painting.
Lately I'm watching One Piece (Sky Island arc if you care) re-reading One Piece and reading my books for uni because there's a lot of them and I want to put in at least a little bit of effort this year.
January 28th, 2012 3:38 PMChloè
I've been here since 2005 and NO ONE knows who I am. Epic right?? Haha.
Nothing much. Just typing up a resume, and such. Looking for a new laptop, and drawing. XD I'm a master of multi-tasking.
How 'bout you.
January 27th, 2012 6:37 PMJuicy
No problemo! Thanks for leaving me a VM and making me feel popular!
So, what's up? :P
January 27th, 2012 12:01 PMChloè
Thank you for the Visit!
And thank you for making my day brighter with the super cute Dratini. :D


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2014-15 (Senior) - Recorded a season-high three blocks, and clocked a career-high 38 minutes against Arizona State (Feb. 15)...Has reached double figures in 13 of 24 games this season ... posted a team-high 19 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the field at Stanford ... notched a career-high 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting from the field against Grambling ... opened the season with four-straight double-digit efforst with 17 against SC State, 12 at Seattle, 18 vs. Pacific and 11 vs. San Jose State.
2013-14 (Junior) - Appeared in 32 games and saw limited action early in the season after being diagnosed with Graves' Disease, an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid … scored in double-figures in four games this season … started the regular-season opener against Seattle (Nov. 10) and notched 10 points (5-of-8 FG) while adding three rebounds … reached double figures for the second time this season with 13 points at Stanford on 6-of-9 shooting from the field while adding six rebounds … scored 10 points (4-of-5 FG, 2-of-2 FT) against Oregon State (Feb. 22) … notched 12 points (5-of-9 FG, 2-of-2 FT) against USC (Mar. 8)
2012-13 (Sophomore) - Inserted into the starting lineup on Jan. 31 and averaged 8.4 ppg and 3.4 rpg in 15 starts after scoring 4.1 ppg and 2.2 rpg coming off the bench in the first 13 games ... missed the first seven games after tearing the patella tendon in his left knee ... debuted vs. Nevada, scoring 5 points in a since broken career-high 18 minutes ... scored 6 points in 17 minutes of action vs. Western Washington ... scored 5 points in 13 minutes at Key Arena vs. Seattle U; site of where his dad played a majority of his NBA career ... 4 points, 2 blocks and 3 rebounds in 13 minutes vs. Jackson State ... set numerous career highs at UConn, scoring 9 points in 21 minutes and grabbing 4 rebounds, making 4-of-9 field goals ... set new career-highs with 12 points on 5x5 shooting, 6 rebounds in 21 minutes at Oregon ... averaged 12.5 ppg during Arizona/ASU homestand ... made his first career start vs. Arizona and scored 6 of his 7 points during the first 4 minutes ... career high 18 points in 24 minutes on 9 of 14 shooting vs. Arizona State ... averaged 8.0 ppg and 4.0 rpg during LA swing ... 10 points and 4 rebounds in a career high 32 minutes at UCLA ... scored all 10 of his points in the first half vs. Oregon State ... 7 points and a career-high 9 rebounds at Arizona ... had played over 20 minutes eight straight-games after just once in the previous 40 games, before the Washington State game ... scored 10 points on 5 of 6 shooting vs. UCLA ... scored 10 points vs. WSU and 2 vs. Oregon in the Pac-12 tournament ... notched his first career double-double with 15 points on 7 of 9 shooting and a career-high 11 rebounds, in career in the season finale at BYU.
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At least for this year, the Big 12 will operate as 10-team league which eliminates one of the country's more popular conference championship games. But the league made a smart move when it opted for a round-robin regular season schedule, meaning every school will play each of the other 9 schools. It's a move that contributed to the Big 12 members having the nation's top-ranked schedule strength.
The Congrove Computer Rankings forecast Oklahoma to go unbeaten and win the conference title, and then edge Alabama in the BCS Championship by 0.54 points to end the SEC's 5-year reign.
Another Big 12 member - Texas in 2005 - was the last non-SEC school to win the BCS title.
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I have a nice shiny fully featured legal copy of Adobe Premiere at my disposal, CS6 even, so I decided to clip down the very last 16 minutes or so of the Council meeting from Oct 30th so if you hadn't had a chance to see it, there it is. But if you have seen it, I still recommend hitting play…I decided, instead of multiple clippings with my text commentary in this post, to put my comments right into the video…and they tended to the sarcastic.
Really, if City Councilor Elliot has no respect for the process and for his position, and especially, his colleagues, I don't see why I should have any respect for him, either.
PS - thanks for the pithy title, Jack!
PS…the amount of respect and patience the City Manager has when responding to this crap…I'm just astounded. I'd have been jumping out of my chair screaming by the end of this.
More City Councilors should be like Bill Martin. THANK you Bill.
Oh, and my comment to the Mr. the night this was on…was that Elliot is Bud Caulfield…without the charm.
Wow! The ability to put your comments in the video is impressive, making for a powerful communication tool.
However, and as usual, CC Elliot really doesn't need any help in making the case that he is a complete horses ass.
Let us be clear here about what's going on here. This is theater. There is no substance here. He wants to complain about the Manager by using the water department. He wants to do this publicly on the record and with great showmanship. So he does this by asking about an individual who is still at the department and Elliot feels he's owed an explanation about it. He knows he isn't going to get one (for very good reasons - read on) and so he can strike a pose and look victimized.
So it starts with him bringing up a personnel matter. The Manager points out that he can't answer that in open session. Moreover, then the Mayor points out that they've strayed from the agenda. So then there's a fight about if he can even bring this up in which the council receives legal advice that they shouldn't because they'd be in violation of the open meeting law. So Elliot pushes the issue, the chair rules him out of order, he feigns surprise that and confusion about why he's out of order. He's then invited to appeal the ruling of the chair to the council. You know, to see if the rest of them want to break the law with him. He doesn't seek an appeal from the council.
So here's the thing. This is all BS grandstanding. He's been around a while now. He knows where he's wrong. He knows perfectly well what it means that personel issues aren't for open meetings and that violating the open meeting law is a no no. He knows perfectly well he's out of order, off the agenda, and what he allegedly wants to do would both break the law and expose the city to litigation. He's been publicly advised that where he's going breaks the law. He knows all this but he also knows the council won't let him go 'over the line'. Thus he can bloviate and grandstand with impunity knowing that he'll be rebuffed and can strike his best 'martyr's pose' knowing full well he's safe behind a council that he knows won't let him 'cross the line'. In fact, he's counting on it because it makes him look all the more victimized. He wisely doesn't ask for an appeal of the chair's ruling because that would expose his game - and Kennedy is too smart to go with him frankly, even though he is an ally.
This isn't the behavior of a man who want's the city's business done. This is a man who wants the microphone, an audience (willing or not), and a villain for his morality play. The proper thing to have done (and again - he knows this) would have been to set an agenda item (motion) for the next meeting (in executive session if necessary). Then it's on the agenda and all the liability/legal issues can be ameliorated. He knows perfectly well there is a way to get his alleged issue taken care of that doesn't hijack an already long meeting.
At some point the council will have to back the Mayor in controlling the meeting.
OMG…"a villain for his morality play"…darling, next one of these commentary videos I produce, I want you over my shoulder making suggestions. Awesome.
I really wanted the chair to call for a vote on the appeal of his ruling. Let the council be on record as wanting him to shut up for a change.
I think that the next time the chair rules Elliot out of order like the last meeting, he should interpret the next sounds out of Elliot's mouth to be a motion to appeal the ruling and call for a vote. Then the council can make a statement backing up the Mayor and for meetings about city business and not histrionics.
Amended note - as Mr. Nutter has pointed out on his blog, it could have also been proper procedure for Elliot to ask for a vote to suspend the rules to allow him to speak on the matter. Then the council could have voted yes or no to let him expound on a personnel matter in open session and open the city up to liability.
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There has been lots of talk about the role blogs have played overseas in digging up dirt and bringing down powerful media figures, most notably CNN's news boss Easton Jordan and CBS news anchor Dan Rather. But until now the local scene has been more occupied with student politics-type bickering, Deborah Coddington's pashmina and Russell Brown's gout.
But this week saw a scandal unfurl in the blogosphere which could have a major impact on the media, not to mention wreaking serious damage to conservative think tank the Maxim Institute.
In some ways it is a shame Maxim's credibility is going to hell in a handcart, as a lot of the policy work it does is sound  if a little shrill.
Maxim Institute is a Christian organisation formed in 2001 by a group including respected former Auckland Grammar headmaster John Graham who think New Zealand is heading down the gurgler and like to express it in the strongest terms.
Here is a typically thumping bit of Maxim rhetoric, from its website "About us" section: "Let's face it, our society is losing its way. For a quarter century we have seen the foundations of our society weakened and the keystone for future generations, the family unit, is now in disarray. Beneath us is the quicksand of family disintegration, welfare dependency and a culture centred on self."
The story which will make it much harder for Maxim Institute to get society back out of the quicksand and back on the straight and narrow was broken by Brown in his blog Hard News on October 13.
Brown posted a memo from Christchurch's The Press editor Paul Thompson, dated the previous day, informing staff that fortnightly columnist Alexis Stuart had been canned because of "concern about the originality of some of her material in her most recent column."
Mr Thompson explained that a reader had noticed the wording in part of Stuart's column was identical to a previously published commentary written by the Maxim Institute's director Bruce Logan, who is also her father.
The Maxim website describes Mr Logan as a former secondary school principal who is "held in high regard for his thought-provoking well-researched commentary."
It might like to change that wording after reading a nine- page analysis of Mr Logan's commentaries by Paul Litterick, spokesman for the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists, posted on the website Fundy Post.
Mr Litterick revealed 10 instances in which chunks of Mr Logan's commentaries published in The Press, the New Zealand Herald and the Otago Daily Times had been lifted without attribution from other sources including famous writers such as Melanie Phillips, Digby Anderson and Christopher Hitchens.
In response, Mr Logan told the New Zealand Herald yesterday he was embarrassed and had been careless. "I have a habit of writing things down and forgetting where I get them from."
This seemed a rather strange explanation since he is unlikely to have transcribed large chunks of text verbatim with paper and pen  and far more likely to have cut and pasted them on a computer, as Mr Litterick did when putting together his gleeful exposé.
At the end of the lengthy diatribe, Mr Litterick explained he had used a web-based programme called Copyscape to detect the plagiarism. The site sounds easy to use; you just type in the URL of the page you want to test and it searches the web for similar text.
Naturally, this is timely warning about the power of the internet for all journalists just as last year's Renee Kiriona affair fades from their minds: always, always, always credit your sources.
(Ms Kiriona, a New Zealand Herald journalist, was found to have cut and pasted a Waikato Times story into her own work without attribution.)
The latest plagiarism fracas may prompt more local journalists to adopt the US press practice of disclosing details about the way in which quotes were obtained  whether in a face to face interview, over the phone or supplied by email or in a statement  or of course copied from someone else's story.
A recent Press Council ruling in favour of Queenstown's Mountain Scene over a Southland Times article also made it clear journalists must cite publications when they lift quotes from them.
The Logan scandal has also sparked a debate about "slipping standards" on local journalism chatgroup Journz with one chatgroup member bemoaning the trend for journalists to research stories via email and then cut-and-paste the answers into stories.
"Is this the way journalists are now starting to conduct interviews? It seems to me to be pretty lazy  but a clever way to get others to write your stories."
But as regrettable as the Logan scandal is  could Russell Brown get any smugger?  it reminds us that leaving the facts to speak for themselves is always more powerful than telling readers what to think.
Want attention? Try whispering rather than yelling, showing rather than telling, playing things down rather than whipping them up.
The Maxim Institute's messages may have had even more impact if Mr Logan had used simple words and authentic feelings rather than smartarse prose, whether it was his or someone else's.
The organisation might also regret using its "letter wizard" technology which allows letterwriters full of spluttering hysteria and moral outrage to bombard newspapers with missives closely resembling spam.
Of course Mr Brown , Mr Litterick et al  "Maxim Institute are 'moral thugs'"  could also do with a reminder not to over-egg the pudding.
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Rand Paul is what Scott Brown promised: Another Reagan?
March 13th, 2010 9:00 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Commentary, government spending, Liberty, Maven Commentary, Philosophy, Politics, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, Taxes | 12 Responses
The Tea Party folks were jumping for joy the day after Scott Brown won the special election in Massachusetts. Brown's victory was all about stopping the Democrats from passing health reform and little else. His subsequent vote, incidentally his very first vote, supporting Obama's "stimulus 2″ jobs bill reinforced this reality amongst some of his now formerly devoted supporters.
Rand Paul is everything the Tea Partiers wanted in Scott Brown and more. He is their Reagan fantasy becoming reality. Only they don't appear to completely realize it yet. Sarah Palin's endorsement was huge, but the jury is still out on whether Palin is more than just a conservative "Barbie" to Scott Brown's "Ken".
Dropping the campaign sweat from Rand Paul's brow on truly limited government litmus paper reveals two names that would make almost every conservative smile: Goldwater and Reagan. These two icons are at the very root of Rand Paul's philosophy of governance.
Philosophy is nice for those of us that immerse ourselves in the issues on a daily basis, but it's not very appealing to the large majority that catch a whiff of it on the news while stepping through the routine of their lives. To be successful politically, as much as I hate to admit it, requires more than just being right on the issues. So much more.
In today's media-centric world it requires an attractive appearance, charm, charisma, no skeletons, and a beautiful family and articulate wife doesn't hurt either. Rand Paul has all of these things plus he's right on the philosophy.
Proof came recently when Rand's wife Kelley delivered a speech on behalf of her husband to a county GOP woman's group in Owensboro, Kentucky. She details some of her husband's history including a story about Rand Paul attending the 1976 Republican convention with his father, Ron Paul. The younger Paul witnessed his father be one of only 4 Republicans to stand up and support Reagan against the incumbent Ford at the time.
I highly recommend you take some time and watch Kelley Paul speak in the video below (2 parts). When you are finished head over to WinRandWin.com and pledge to participate in the March 23rd money bomb. He needs help to fend off the barrage of attacks that have already started from his GOP primary opponent Trey Grayson.
I get concerned when I hear that Rand is dedicated to being a citizen legislator and that he's not embarking on this political journey as a stepping stone to higher office. I suppose that can change like it does for many of our elected officials (including his father). I worry about this because I see potential in Rand Paul that goes beyond the title of Senator right on to the title of President.
The final quote from Rand's brother Robert, in a recent Houston Chronicle article does provide some hope.
Rand, he said, is a good messenger for the second generation of the Paul revolution: "I think my dad has always wanted someone to take the message forward."
And how sweet that Tea Party-Goldwater-Reagan-Paul message is. Watch Kelley Paul below.


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Can you guess what the single most important skill for entrepreneurs is in the world of business? How to sell? Yes, but what does that really mean? How to develop a strategic plan? Sure, but what is at the core of the process? How to create new products? Of course, but what does the creative process entail? How to handle conflict? Ah, now we are getting to the heart and soul of what needs to stop being ignored.
Actually, how to handle relationships is the biggest business issue to tackle. Why? Well, think about it - every sale, every strategic plan, every creative endeavor has as the common denominator, people stuff.
We no longer live in a command and control world. We live in a team-based atmosphere where we will no longer accept the edict from the King or Queen to do what we are told. How did this change happen? It began when we started to see the planet as a global village. That started with the first photographs from space showing that we all live somewhere on what has been called "The blue pearl."
It became clear that we are all connected. TV helped us see that. However, the biggest revolution in the relationship realm came from the internet and is still steaming ahead with blogs, emails and comments that anyone annoyed with their boss or a product can go online and let millions of folks know what is going on.
Everyone who wants to air an opinion has become an expert. The 60's talked about "Power to the People" - it is this century that is making it happen.
So, what do you need to know about relationships? You say you are not a psychologist and you don't even like Dr. Phil. Sorry, this is the area that does and will separate the successful from the losers.
In my book, "Don't Bring It to Work" you can learn the major reasons relationships go awry. Better yet, you can learn to do something to make changes happen so your relationships cause you delight rather than grief.
There are 13 major behavior patterns we all learn from our original organization, the family that we bring into the workplace. This is not a preference, like choosing between butter pecan and almond fudge. You, and everyone you know, bring behavior patterns to work and if they are not changed to more adult ways of behaving, well, that is where you get the office politics, the snide remarks at meetings, the bull---- answers when you request honesty.
So, do yourself a favor. Lean about the ebb and flow of relationships and how to make them work on your behalf. You will be the better for it and so will your employees and customers. And as an added benefit, you can take the learning home and have a happier partner and happier kids. So, can you guess what the single most important skill for entrepreneurs is in the world of business?


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The Bacon Habit returns to the California State Fair with a new item on their menu that harkens back to their humble beginnings with a Churro food cart. Owners Nathan and Amber Vandewarker and Ron Peet now bring their bacon wrapped, Jack Daniels whiskey infused churros to their bacon filled menu.
Last year of 2013 was The Bacon Habit team's first year at the State Fair with their full trailer rather than their small churro cart. The food items all wrapped, topped or twisted with bacon were a big hit with fairgoers because most people know that "everything is better with bacon." They have also changed their chicken kabob to a chicken strip with the same delicious herbal seasoning that made it so irresistibly delicious last year.
The Bacon Habit continues to serve the many favorites that include a large turkey leg wrapped in bacon, bacon wrapped hotdogs, bacon wrapped "porkabella" mushroom kabobs, beer battered fried thick bacon strips, chocolate covered bacon topped cheesecake and more. The team of Nathan, Amber and Ron are all enthusiastic about their bacon delights and enjoy coming up with new, tasty menu items which Amber states are often inspired by their bacon loving patrons' suggestions and comments about what they'd enjoy tasting wrapped in bacon.
The team originates from San Diego and now travels to various summer fairs and festivals while their school teaching jobs give them that bit of spare time to work even harder rather than chill by the pool or fish at the lake. The Vandewarkers have also created something even more delightful than their new bacon fair treats with a one month old baby name Lila. Mom and Pop and Grandpop stay busy at the California State Fair and other events while little Lila stays in the more tolerable hotel atmosphere cuddling with Grandma waiting for the hard working crew to return.
There are many kinds of popular foods to try at the California State Fair from the traditional corndogs, cotton candy, burgers, lemonade and barbeque to the unusual and the whacky. There is nothing whacky about bacon and when combined with a churro it makes for an ideal sweet and salty combo, crunchy and delicious topped with a bit of whip cream and some maple syrup for dipping. It's a Bacon Habit treat highly recommended for both churro and bacon lovers.


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In an effort to broaden its audience and get more people to participate in discussing socially and environmentally sustainable economic growth in U.S. cities, the nonprofit Next American City is launching The Storefront for Urban Innovation. Located in the Brewerytown section of Philadelphia, the office space will serve as the organization's headquarters and be used for exhibitions and small and medium-sized events.
Even though the physical location is in Philly, the nonprofit hopes to use it to bring in ideas for improving cities from around the world.
"By creating panel discussions, lectures, and exhibitions that build off our forthcoming content, we will build a more robust dialogue about issues such as infrastructure, the built environment, the economy, and education," blogs Executive Director Diana Lind. "We hope that this will help build urban policy literacy among a broader constituency in Philadelphia, put Philadelphia on the map as a key laboratory for urban policy and practice, and ultimately better empower people to elect better officials, call for improvements to basic aspects of urban life, and create a more sustainable economy."
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25 Dec
Christmas has arrived and I wish everyone a fantastic holiday break. Hopefully you are surrounded my friends and family. If you're browsing for something to read this crisp, food-filled day, I recommend the following posts. Cheers!
21 Dec
I'm settling into a few days away from my full-time job to relax and celebrate Christmas with family, so needless to say I'm excited to be near my loved ones. It'll be a good opportunity to recharge my creativity and work on the blog here at Modern-Worker.com
How is everyone's drafting of New Year's resolutions coming along? Thus far, I have settled on 5 main, inspiring goals for 2008. Back to the matter at hand; let's list off the best in self-improvement blogs over the past week.
The Fever of Humanity and the Antidote: Reconciling Self-Love and Self-Improvement
Albert, the net's Urban Monk, offers up a dish of refreshingly tasty self-realization advice through his caring, insightful writing style.
Who cares about your job title - tell me what you DO!
Alexander, the Chief Happiness Officer, inspires professionals to focus on the work we do in the world and not being tied down to a specific title.
Making the Decision to Improve Our Standard of Living by Spending More
David illustrates the decision we all have to make on whether or not a higher quality of life is worth the hefty price tag. Weigh-in by commenting on this post.
Are You Winding Down A Little Too Much?
Cathering tackles the issues When relaxing become slacking. This n.h.b. blogger injects a swift jump into the 'sphere's collective step by pointing out the downfalls of extended breaks.
Using Questions To Control Communication
Leon Ho of LifeHack penned a helpful piece on improving talks inside and out of work by posing questions. A must-read.
Don't Break Your Back! Tips to Healthy Posture
Tina at Think Simple Now hits on a point many office workers ignore… posture. Be good to yourself, read Tina's article.
The Right Seat on the Right Bus
Sonnie who hails from the Filipines, always produces tough-invoking writing. Bookmark his blog and you'll be glad you did.
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I wish you all a relaxing, enjoyable weekend.
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19 Dec
The holidays present a time of fun, exciting get-togethers, but sleep is often unwillingly ignored throughout December into the new year. More after-work activities and rushing around buying up gifts can wear on energy levels. That being said, I've compiled 5 tried and true methods for snoozing better when stacking Zs can be elusive on the weekends. Make time for yourself into 2008, be good to your body and you can be sure it will return the favor in folds.
1 - Clear your mind of anxious thoughts
Anxiety is a leading cause of lack of sleep, worldwide. If there are indeed things on your mind, write them down to deal with later. Bad dreams and waking up more than once during the night are signs of not properly clearing one's head before bed. Deal with worldly thoughts during the day and focus on your goal of rest at night; don't let them overlap.
2 - Take deep breaths to relax
I swear by this. No matter the situation, in bed or out, deep breathing exercises will always help in calming down.
3 - Rid your bedroom of televisions
Your place of rest should be a personal sanctuary where sleep is the main and only focus. A TV set detracts from this and should be left in a room such as the living space. Orient the objects/furniture in your bedroom to create maximum relaxation and convenience. For more on this, familiarize yourself with Feng Shui.
4 - 20 minute rule in full effect
If you crawl into bed and find that 20 minutes later you're not asleep, it's time to read a book or visit the kitchen for a cup of decaf tea. Watching TV or surfing the 'net on a computer will not help to relax the mental state, so avoid these. It's all about decompressing analog, not digital.
5 - Let the sun be your alarm clock
Your body has what's referred to as a "biological clock". The cycle of the night and sunrise are fantastic tools to align your body's schedule to. By waking up with the sun on Saturday and Sunday, you'll arise more naturally and feel increasingly rested each morning. Sleeping in 'til 2pm will induce a groggy, zombie-like state, guaranteed.
No matter how hectic work and personal lives may get around holiday festivities, we need sleep, because without it we cannot properly recharge our bodies and minds. Enjoy the rest of 2007 but consistently make an effort to employ these 5 methods for resting smarter on the week's end.
17 Dec
I'm willing to bet you've experienced on one too many occasions the effects of not having enough time to prepare for work after that alarm clock sounds the digital battle cry. To err is to be human, but beyond the darkness of consistently being ruled by clock there exists a promising light of promptness. Attaining morning bliss is easy, with a little planning.
Personally a few years back before I rebooted my morning routine, the AM hours consisted of never eating breakfast and hopping up on what couldn't have been healthy amounts of manufactured eye-opener aka caffeine. Red Bull coursing through my veins, I'd consistently forget lunches and other items that I'd want to have with me at the workplace. I've never been a ill-prepared individual, but I will say that my college/early work years could have been injected with a solid dose sticky notes. I've got that on "lockdown" now and hit every day stacked to the brim with everything I will or potentially need.
So, what did I do to go from forgetful fumbler to stocked stud? Well, the recipe lies across several methods of better morning-time management via the evening before. You see, I was always viewing the time before making my commute as my window to pack the briefcase and dash off, when in fact I was dead wrong. To become the optimized professional, there were four main points I had to hit that hardly take any time and can be done 12 hours before work.
Pack lunch - This is perhaps the biggest time saver I can recommend. You'll love yourself for doing this the night before.
Lay out clothes - No more deciding on what to wear or furiously sifting through closets at the last minute.
Write reminders - Instead of gradually remembering "to-dos" through the day, jot them down while they are fresh.
Clean up room/house - The feeling of leaving a living environment messy will hamper sleep and wear on a person through the day.
By doing these things at night, instead of the morning, you'll enjoy a care-free commute with plenty of hourglass to spare between waking up and pushing through the office doors.
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14 Dec
I've been involved with a lot of design lately at work, and it has been a great source of self-discovery in regards to keeping creativity afloat. Staying increasingly focused has been a fun challenge and new content by some of my favorite bloggers have fueled my productivity fire.
Holiday Gift Guide, Part 4: Frugal Homemade Gifts - Flexo at Consumerism Commentary serves up some great gift-giving notions that keep wallet size in mind while still pleasing the ones you love. As cheesy as it mauy be perceived, a knit sweater is still a great present.
Your Guide to Get Spinning in the Idea Tornado - Tina Su's blog Think Simple Now has quickly become one of my favorite blogs around. Reading her truthful insight goes down like a warm cup of tea. Enjoy this recent post on how to spurn creativity.
Are You A Doormat? - Catherine Lawson asks us to stand up for ourselves and stop being a doormat. Grab an extra helping of motivation by checking out her article.
Customer Service At Its Best - Thanks SmugMug - Top-notch customer services is rare to find these days, but for David at My Two Dollars… it found him.
Be Frugal and Use Public Transportation - Commuting to work takes time, effort and money. David of MoneyNing illustrates why you should take advantage of public trans systems and save on all of these.
Reader Discussion: Should we have beliefs? - Browse through an interesting comments section in which Albert aka the Urban Monk asks his readers whether belief development is healthy.
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I wish you all a relaxing, enjoyable weekend.