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It Starts with Little Things
The following article is based on the Founder's Address by leaders of ARN and the field of rehabilitation nursing at ARN's 34th Annual Educational Conference, held October 2008 in San Francisco. The panel of leaders shared their experiences on founding ARN, collaborating with others to further the profession, instilling a personal responsibility, mentoring future nursing leaders, and taking charge of their own careers.
A Blurb in the Newspaper
Albiana Doll, BSN RN, said that long before ARN was established, she had occasionally met other rehabilitation nurses from outside her home in northern California, but she often felt isolated from her professional peers. "The closest rehab center was in Los Angeles," she said. "And who's going to travel 550 miles on her day off to meet other rehab nurses?" Moreover, ease of communication in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s just wasn't what it is today.
"In 1974, I was visiting friends and relatives in [my hometown of] Chicago, and I read a little blurb in the [local] newspaper about a group of nurses who just had a display at a [local] health conference. The name and location of the hospital was listed, so I phoned and was told that Sue Novak was in charge of these nurses. She was out of town at the time, so I spoke with Geri Kaminski, another rehab nurse. After a long discussion, I asked Geri what position she held with this group. 'I'm a member of the board,' she said. I thought, 'There's a board? Good God, where have I been?' Geri said there were also officers and that they were working on chartering chapters."
Geri informed Albiana of plans underway for the first ARN conference to be held in Minneapolis the next year. "I told her, 'I am going to be there. There will be nurses from California that will be there, too. I'm going to get busy and I'm going to have that charter chapter before I come back for that conference. Sure enough, in 1975, I found myself in Minneapolis, and the Northern California Chapter was chartered."
Albiana expected to be one of about 30 attendees at conference, and was shocked to discover 120 rehabilitation nurses there. "When I saw the group in the assembly hall, I thought it was Christmas. I wondered, 'Where have all of these people been all my life? How many more are out there?' Before I went back, I was reassured that there would be a Western regional seminar in Oakland next year. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven."
Not only was the regional seminar held, but "that same year we found ourselves sitting in the White House, just yards away from the Oval Office in the Roosevelt Room, discussing the future of nursing and rehabilitation nursing. I thought, 'Can it possibly get any better?' But that year we also were accepted in the Federation of Specialty Nurses and ARN was the youngest organization to join—something we were very proud of," said Albiana, who noted that ARN had just over 1,000 members at the time.
Over the next few years, "every time I went to a conference there were always new faces," she said. "We started with nothing. I was only a voice on the phone when they made me a member of the board … It was like the beginning of the world. It took the stamina and the perseverance of Sue to really see us through—and here we are, 34 years later."
One Little Phone Call
Cathy Tracey, MS RN CRRN, who is administrator of nursing at a 650-resident continuing care retirement community in Concord, NH, said that before she began working at her facility 5 years ago, many staff members, including nursing assistants, suffered patient movement–related injuries. The facility had difficulty getting workers' compensation insurance and its insurance premiums were high.
As a result, her facility, Havenwood Heritage Heights, implemented a no-lift program and bought a lot of lifting equipment. Still, people had all sorts of reasons not to use it and continued to get hurt.
"I really struggled with the director of our rehab department, a physical therapist, and another physical therapist in the department who were very opposed to the use of any kind of lifting equipment," Tracey said. "I understood where they were coming from; their goal is to promote independence and achieve functional goals and they felt the equipment was a barrier to that. As much as I understood that, we were still having people get injured. I was trying to convince them that, yes, [residents] can transfer themselves in the gym at 10 am, but by 7 pm they're exhausted and they're a two-person lift."
To rectify the situation, Tracey called Audrey Nelson, whom she knew as a fellow ARN board member. "Audrey was doing groundbreaking work in safe-patient handling. It really was this one little phone call that got this all started. I asked Audrey, 'What can I do? Do you have any literature? Do you know of any research? Do you know any therapists? It was just an inquiry call."
Three months later, Audrey told Tracey that she had been receiving many calls for rehabilitation nurses who were struggling with the same issue. Nelson decided to start a task force to figure out how to promote rehabilitation and prevent staff from getting hurt. According to Tracey, they discovered a few things at their first meeting. First, nurses had very different values than physical therapists. "Physical therapists learn very early on that they should protect themselves from injury, while nurses consider themselves self-sacrificing; they're willing to go down with the patient, to their own detriment."
Second, it's a myth to believe that therapists don't get hurt because they use proper body mechanics. "Therapists do get hurt," Tracey said.
Finally, there is no right way to lift a 200-pound person. "We are not supposed to do it," Tracey said. "It's not okay."
For 3 years, Tracey worked with physical therapists at her facility to develop a plan to avoid injuries and promote rehabilitation by publishing a white paper with the Safe Patient Handling Task Force, presenting at a safe patient handling conference and an ARN conference, and assembling a 30-member interdisciplinary group that included 10 ARN members to attend a conference with international speakers on safe-patient handling. "One little phone call led to this," Tracey said. Now, "both staff and residents at my facility are safer."
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To be accountable and not fall into taking on the victim role, it's crucial that nurses be on a peer level with the rest of the rehabilitation team, said Aloma "Cookie" Gender, MSN RN CRRN. "We're in a difficult position because—compared to physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and even case management—rehab nursing is not covered in [the curriculum of] most nursing schools and universities," she said. "Therapists know what rehab is, but nurses new to the specialty do not." Gender suggested educating nurses on the specialty practice of rehabilitation nursing and its unique role on the rehabilitation team.
"I was really fortunate to begin my rehab career at Sharp Rehabilitation Center in San Diego where I received a very good orientation on rehab nursing. We actually had a very strong interdisciplinary team. Two years later, I joined ARN and attended my first conference where I was extremely impressed with Albiana's leadership. She pushed me to start a chapter in San Diego and hold a regional conference. She wouldn't let me off the hook, actually. I continued to grow with the specialty and serve on numerous committees and network with my peers. I value the input and colleagueship of those early leaders."
When Gender started working at Christus Saint Michael Rehabilitation Hospital in Texarkana, TX, 5 years ago, she discovered that the nurses had no idea what rehabilitation nursing was. "Even though the hospital had been in existence for almost 10 years, they were practicing med/surg nursing. The nurses didn't attend team conferences, and the therapists didn't talk to the nurses at all. None of the nurses in the facility had been to an ARN conference," she said. "After I took two nurses to the ARN conference, they said, 'Oh, is this what we're supposed to be doing?' It was very, very enlightening."
To bring staff up to speed on rehabilitation nursing, Gender suggested
An Inspirational Presentation
How do you become a mentor? First, you need to be a role model and a leader, said Marilyn Ter Maat, MSN RN CRRN NEA-BC FNGNA. "When I attended my first ARN conference, I was new to my position as a rehab instructor. The conference was held in two different hotels and I didn't know anybody. When Gender presented at the conference, I thought, 'She really knows her stuff.' She was enthusiastic and positive, and she inspired me to ask questions."
In the 1980s, at the height of the nursing shortage, Ter Maat moved to Hawaii to serve as director of the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. "There was no one else around to ask questions. There were very few CRRNs," she said. "One day I got a phone call and the operator said, 'I've got this CRRN here from the big island.' And I said 'Hold her. Tell her to wait.' I thought to myself, 'I've got a hot one.' I was going to try to convince Karen Klemme that this was the place she wanted to work rather than living on the big island. We visited, but she didn't want to move to Oahu. I knew she had move to Hawaii from California, so I asked her to an upcoming conference in California."
Klemme and Ter Maat kept in close touch over the years. "I continue to encourage her to share her knowledge. She is a wonderful legal nurse consultant and presents at ARN conferences. I have asked her to get involved in committees. Karen continues to network with many people through ARN, and so has become a mentor to others. Karen and I became friends through building trust and listening to each other."
Likewise, Ter Maat recalled how her own mentors have helped her. One, for example, encouraged her to get her CRRN when she was too busy encouraging others to do so. After the reminder, she got certified.
Another mentor told her to become involved in any way she could. "As a director or nursing, I started asking questions about our local chapter, which was not active. I called the ARN office and they suggested I talk to my regional director, Karen Preston, with whom I became acquainted at ARN conferences. She provided me with a lot of guidance and support while I was in Hawaii, and helped socialize me back into ARN," she said.
"When I moved to South Dakota, I again looked for a chapter but couldn't find one, so I started looking for people from the state on the registration list at conference. I found a group of nurses…and after a couple of years, the South Dakota chapter [took root] and grew into a very unique chapter."
Ter Maat encourages others to volunteer and get involved in their local chapter or other activities. "As nurses, we need to realize that once we get to a certain point in our career it's time to give back and see who else you can grow. Everyone you meet has something to teach you—a skill, a bit of wisdom, or even a personal success," Ter Maat said. "Each person has something of value to offer. You are all leaders, either with your patients or your staff. Find someone to mentor or find someone who will mentor you. You'll never know when you're going to influence someone's life."
A Childhood Visit to a Hospital
How do you encourage the younger generations to consider nursing as a career? By sharing your experience and knowledge. Sharon Duffy, MS RN CRRN, shared with conference attendees the story of her family that has four generations of nurses and a firm tradition of mentorship:
"My story starts in the 1950s when I was about 10 years old. My sister-in-law, Lu, was my mentor at that time and she had just graduated from nurse training in Omaha, NB. She took me up to Children's Hospital in Omaha. In the 1950s, polio had hit Nebraska and every patient there was a young and in an iron lung. I stood and watched those nurses giving caring and compassionate care to those young people and I decided then that I wanted to be a nurse. Lu didn't have any idea that taking me there that day was going to decide my career," she said.
"My family is full of offspring who work in the medical profession…Of my 21 nieces and nephews, 12 went into the medical profession. After graduating from high school, my nephew Ron came to work in the lab at the hospital where I worked and now he's a medical technologist and head of a lab in Omaha–and he married a nurse."
Three of Duffy's nieces came to work at the hospital after graduating high school. Today, one is in vocational rehabilitation; the other two graduated from the hospital from which Duffy graduated and currently work for her at Proactive (the health and fitness center at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, NE). One works in cardiac rehabilitation; the
other, who said that Duffy talked her into becoming a nurse when she was 10 years old, is in occupational health at Proactive. Two other nieces went into nursing, one as a pediatric nurse and another as a nurse practitioner in adult cardiology clinic.
Two great nieces have also chosen a career in nursing. One will graduate with a BSN in December, as will a god-child, who will graduate in May from the same nursing school that Duffy attended. A great nephew married a nurse who works at Madonna, and another great niece, whose mother is a radiology technologist is going into occupational health.
"Why do we have four generations of nurses?" Duffy said. "Happiness. You never know who's watching you—nor the impression you're making on people. But they can see if you're happy or not. We have to live so that people will want what we have."
Do Little Things
Karen Preston, PHN MS CRRN FIALCP, didn't actively seek a career as an entrepreneur. But she took hold of the opportunity when it presented itself—and never looked back. Here's her story:
"I went into home health and had the opportunity to work with some young college students who had various disabilities," she said. "It intrigued me to know people who were well yet still had some issues. I went into a major rehabilitation center where I learned about spinal cord injury and brain injury, and then I went back into home health.
"I had the great fortune to be able to develop a clinical nurse specialist position as a nurse consultant in home health. It was a very easy leap when a friend of mine who owned a small independent consulting company said, 'Hey, do you want to come be a case manager here?' I said, "'Sure, why not.'
"When she wanted to retire about 7 years later, she wanted her nurses to buy her company. So three of us bought the company rather than return to our real jobs again. After all, we didn't want anybody telling us what to do. We were independent people who controlled our own schedule.
"That decision seemed no more daunting than any other career decision I made in my life. The reason: preparation. Some people have said, 'Well, you were just lucky. You were in the right place at the right time.'
"There are people who go out and try and set up their own business and do it from scratch. That's a lot harder. But there's a saying that 'luck is preparation meeting opportunity.' Other people give you opportunities, but you are the only one who gives yourself preparation. Decisions you make every single day are building blocks for preparation.
"It starts with little things: With Cookie's nurse going to the therapy gym to talk with the therapists, with Albiana saying, 'I'm going to go to a conference next year,' with Cathy and Marilyn picking up and making phone calls. It starts with Sharon giving someone advice about what to do. Suddenly, you have built your own repertoire of skills and experiences that very easily positions you to do things you never, ever thought you could do.
"You never know what it is that you do that influences somebody else to follow their own path to leadership and mentor," she said. "We need to be positive and surround ourselves with positive people. We need to get rid of negative, toxic environments and not tolerate them. When we see it, make positive efforts to change it. Build synergy. Building teamwork in an upward spiral creates so much phenomenal energy.
"Say yes [to volunteering] and start doing little things and building your own personal repertoire. It's really not that hard. I don't think it's that remarkable that I'm an entrepreneur—any of you can do whatever you want to do—and I hope you will."
There Are No 'Born Leaders'
Panel moderator Paul Nathenson, MPA BSN RN CRRN, said that despite all the great leaders in nursing—including Florence Nightingale; Madeline Leininger, the founder of transcultural nursing; Martha Rogers, who defined the person as a unified whole—none exemplifies leadership to him more than the character of Captain Kirk of Star Trek.
"Kirk certainly was not the smartest person aboard the Starship Enterprise," Nathenson said. "After all, there was Mr. Spock, the logical, intellectual first officer; Dr. McCoy, who possessed all the medical knowledge available to mankind in the 2260s; and Scottie, the chief engineer, who had oodles of technical know-how."
"Captain Kirk was the essence of the dynamic manager—a guy who knew how to delegate, had the passion to inspire, and looked good in what he wore to work—and that's important," he said. "He never professed to have skills greater than his subordinates. He acknowledged that they knew what they were doing in their domains, but he established the vision and tone. He was in charge of morale."
According to Nathenson, true leaders
"Good leaders are not 'born leaders'; they are mentored, groomed and developed," Nathenson added. "Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader."
About the Panel
Moderator Paul Nathenson, MPA BSN RN CRRN, has been in nursing for 30 years and involved with ARN for at least 20 of those years. He has served as president of the board, conference chair, and is currently chair of the ARN Health Policy Committee. He is vice-president of corporate planning and long-term care and a nursing home administrator at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, NB.
Sharon Kay Duffy, MS RN CRRN, has been in nursing for over 40 years and has been involved with ARN since 1985. She has led the ARN education SIG, chaired the continuing education provider unit, chaired a conference planning committee and served on the ARN board. She is currently employed at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, NE, where she serves as manager of holistic health and integrative medicine at Proactive, Madonna's Health and Fitness Center.
Karen Preston, PHN MS CRRN FIALCP, is an entrepreneur and business owner. Karen has been involved in nursing for over 30 years and has been active in ARN since 1981. She has served on numerous chapter and national committees and chapter boards. She also served as ARN board president in 1994, as well as faculty for the ARN/PRN course for several years. She is currently co-owner of RNS Healthcare Consultants, a consulting company specializing in case management, life care planning, education, and other services.
Marilyn Ter Maat, MSN RN CRRN NEA-BC FNGNA, has worked in nursing since 1975 and has been involved in ARN for 23 years. She has served as ARN director at large, president of the board, and chair of the RNCB board. Marilyn is currently semi-retired and serves as part-time clinical application implementation analyst for the Good Samaritan Society in Sioux Falls, SD. Cathy Tracey, MS RN CRRN, has worked in nursing for more than 30 years and has been involved in ARN for 28 of those years, during which time she served as ARN president. Currently she serves as administrator of nursing at Havenwood Heritage Heights, a 650-resident continuing care retirement community in Concord, NH. Tracey was a member of the Safe Patient Handling Task Force, a collaboration between ARN and the American Physical Therapy Association.


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Although equipped with RPC, the Sautter-Harlé-Blondel gear for these turrets was apparently far from satisfactory. As the guns were closely spaced together, these ships also suffered from problems with excessive dispersion.
The dual quad-gun turret arrangement was calculated to be 27.6% lighter than a quad twin-gun arrangement, but it did mean that a single hit could eliminate half of the main battery.
The construction of these weapons is not clear, but it is believed to have been similar to that of the 380 mm/45 (14.96") guns used on the Richelieu. This would make the construction a loose autofretted liner and A tube reinforced at the breech by a single row of short hoops along with an outer jacket. The breech mechanism was a Welin screw breech block, hydro-pneumatically powered and balanced by counterweights. The breech plug opened upwards. Actual bore length was 50.44 calibers.
Some of the APC shells for these guns were converted to aircraft AP bombs.
A note on sources: "Battleships: Allied Battleships in World War II" and "Battleships of the World 1905-1970" list this weapon as "330 mm/52" but, as noted above, the actual bore length was 50.44 calibers.
Dunkerque in 1939
Strasbourg in 1938
330 mm APC being brought aboard Dunkerque
|330 mm/50 (13") Model 1931
|Ship Class Used On
|Dunkerque Class
|Date Of Design
|Date In Service
|Gun Weight
|155,503 lbs (70,535 kg)
|Gun Length oa
|676.0 in (17.170 m)
|Bore Length
|655.3 in (16.645 m)
|Rifling Length
|548.8 in (13.940 m)
|(80) 0.126 in deep x 0.304 in (?) (3.2 mm x 7.73 mm)
|0.205 in (?) (5.2 mm)
|Uniform RH 1 in 25.57
|Chamber Volume
|17,880 in3 (293 dm3)
|Rate Of Fire
|1.5 - 2 rounds per minute
|Note: The intended rate of fire was 3 rounds per minute. However, the shell supply arrangements in the shell rooms proved to be inadequate and the designed ROF was never met.
|Projectile Types and Weights
(see Notes 3 and 4)
|APC - 1,235 lbs. (560 kg)
HE - 1,151 lbs. (552 kg)
|Bursting Charge
|APC - 44.7 lbs. (20.3 kg)
HE - 140 lbs. (63.5 kg)
|Projectile Length
|65 in (165 cm)
|Propellant Charge
|423 lbs. (192 kg) SD19
|Muzzle Velocity
|APC - 2,854 fps (870 mps)
HE - 2,904 fps (885 mps)
|Working Pressure
|20.3 tons/in2 (3,200 kg/cm2)
|Approximate Barrel Life
|250 rounds
|Ammunition stowage per gun
|Turret I: 114 rounds
Turret II: 110 rounds
1) Propellant charges were in quarters.
2) Aircraft AP bomb weighed 1,235 lbs. (560 kg) and was designated as M1939.
3) Actual projectile designations: APC - OPf Mle 1935 (no Dye) and OPfK Mle 1935 (with Dye). HE - OEA Mle 1935.
4) HE projectiles may not have actually entered service.
5) APC had a radius head of 6crh. The large burster of this shell, 3.6% of total weight, is thought to indicate that it was intended primarily for use against the lightly armored German Panzerschiffes.
|4.3 degrees
|7.2 degrees
|10.2 degrees
|14.8 degrees
|19.6 degrees
|25.4 degrees
|35.0 degrees
|35.0 degrees
|0 yards (0 m)
|25,153 yards (23,000 m)
|30,114 yards (27,500 m)
|Note: This data is from "Battleships: Allied Battleships in World War II" for a muzzle velocity of 2,854 fps (870 mps) and is based upon the USN Empirical Formula for Armor Penetration.
|Quad Mount
Dunkerque (2): St Chamond Model 1932
(see Note 2)
|1,473 tons (1,497 mt)
|-5 / +35 degrees
|Rate of Elevation
|6 degrees per second
(see Note 7)
|Turret I: +/- 143 degrees
Turret II: +/- 150 degrees
|Rate of Train
|5 degrees per second
|Gun Recoil
|45.3 in (1.15 m)
|Loading Angle
(see Note 8)
|Any angle
1) These guns were sleeved in pairs. There was apparently some adjustment between the guns in a pair, possibly for alignment purposes. Dunkerque was the first French battleship to have RPC for training and elevation. The turrets were powered by Léonard electric servo-motors with hydraulic drive with Sautter-Harlé-Blondel (SHB) RPC gear. However, the SHB equipment was found to be unreliable, synchronization between the directors and turrets was poor and manual intervention was needed for fine adjustment. In addition, the servo motors were underpowered which resulted in slow tracking speeds and frequent breakdowns. Major problems were found on trials and even after modifications the system never worked properly. Two 100 HP training motors were provided for each turret, with only one needed at a time. One 75 HP elevation motor was provided for each pair of guns.
2) These mountings were developed by St Chamond and were electrically powered. The supporting ball race contained 152 balls of 7.17 in (18.2 cm) diameter. The magazines and shell rooms for each pair of guns were on the same deck on opposite sides of the barbette and on two levels, with those for the port pair of guns on the reinforced inner bottom and those for the starboard side on the deck directly above. Ammunition supply from the magazines was by dredger hoist, one for each pair of guns. Ammunition was transferred in the working chamber to the gun loading cages of the upper hoists. Each gun had its own hoist and the cages had three compartments, the lowest one for the shells while each of the upper compartments held two charges. Although there is only one weight given for all four turrets, it should be noted that the rear of "B" turret on Dunkerque had 1 cm thinner armor than "A" turret and that Strasbourg had 3 cm thicker face armor and 1 cm thicker roof armor than the turrets on Dunkerque. For these reasons, I would conclude that there were at least three different weights among the four turrets.
3) The gunhouse was divided internally by a 4 cm (1.6") bulkhead. This ran down into the working chamber where it was thinned down to 2.5 cm (1").
4) Heavy leather blast bags were fitted to the main gun embrasures in 1939.
5) Two 100 hp training motors were in each mounting, either one of which could be used to train the turret. There were two elevation motors, each rated for 75 hp.
6) The gun axis in each pair were 66.5 in (169 cm) apart while the two inner guns were 100 in (254 cm) apart.
7) These gun arcs should be regarded as approximate as various official plans give differing figures. Some of this may be due to concerns about blast effects on the ship fittings.
8) An electric chain rammer was carried on an extension of the gun cradle and theoretically permitted loading and any angle of elevation. In practice, it was found that shells jammed in the breech at higher elevations when the other guns were firing. As a result, loading usually took place at angles no more than 15 degrees.
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I purchased the rib sampler package for my husband. He is a BBQ lover and also a certified BBQ judge and travels throughout the U.S. The ribs were very good and I wish I would have purchased some of the sides. I read the review from Heather Bee and found it quite confusing. I have called and left messages 4 times and my calls were returned promptly. I have e-mailed the company 5 times and they have e-mailed me back immediately. They have always been very friendly and courteous. I had an issue/concern that was 100% caused by me and they bent over backwards to took care of me. I was very impressed with how concerned and caring they were.
I am a customer for life and appreciate their superb customer service!
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You haven't tasted delicious until you tasted pig of the month. I admit I had my doubts at first this being mail order and all, but thank god I gave it a try because I love this thing almost as much as I love my brand new Chevy. The great thing about it is that it's all ready to go in the package. All you have to do is to open it up and choose a way to heat it. That's it and you've got yourself the most delicious, mouth watering pig bbq in the universe. Don't worry about the cost by the way because it's hella cheap considering the size of the order.
I am freaking addicted to pig of the month… this company will take my money for the rest of my life now, but I can't help it though. This thing is crazy good man! It's freaking cheap for the size anyways so try it out and I'll leave the judgment to you. They should probably do a money back guarantee because I seriously doubt anyone would find it not good.
To be perfectly honest, this is the first time I've ever had pig of the month BBQ and it absolutely knocked my socks off. A close friend recommended pig of the month delivery service and I decided to go for it. I placed my order, paid the bill, and went about my business until one day when the delivery guy dropped a package on my doorstep.
I tossed all the contents onto the grill and a few minutes later the aroma had my mouth watering. Oh my lord this is some great stuff. It's ready to go the on the grill the minute you get it because everything's already marinated in the package. The meat was so tender and fresh I don't think I'll ever buy meat from my local grocer again. I would have never imagined delivered food items could be so delicious.
I must admit to having some amount of reservations about ordering meat of any kind online. After all, I had never seen pig of the month ads for their barbeques or for any other meat product before. The pig bbq orders my wife ordered arrived within the scheduled time span. No loss of moisture and my family enjoyed the meat very much at our bbq party. We have no regrets and the price was actually cheaper than if we had gone to a restaurant, which would have added a drive of about 10 miles from our home as well. I would recommend pig of the month to any and everyone.
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The first time I tried pig of the month my wife told me I looked like a homeless man who hasn't eaten in days haha. She wasn't exaggerating because I had my face down facing the table and I just chomped on the pig until I could only see bones. I highly recommended pig of the month. It'll be the best thing you ever tasted.
Pig of the month isn't better than my mom's pig bbq with her secret sauce, but aside from my mother's cooking nothing comes close to it. Delivered or at a restaurant, I've never tasted pig bbq taste so good. If you only tasted my mom's bbq you'd know exactly what I mean when I say pig of the month is a close second. I'd eat it everyday if I could ROFL
When was the last time you had something so good that you could honestly compare the pure joy of eating it to having sex? Hahaha~ Well that's exactly what you'll do once you try pig of the month. My wife's been force feeding me vegetables for some time now and she doesn't allow me to have meat every day, but I made a deal with her and I get to have pig of the month at least 3 times a week and let me tell you those three meals are the most enjoyable hours of my week.
The first time I tasted pig of the month was at my buddy's weekend barbeque and I fell in love with it ever since. I order this on a regular basis now because now my whole family have gone nuts for them after they had their first taste. I love the taste and I love how the meat melt melts in mouth. I get chills just describing the taste LOL~ I'll warn anyone who plans to order this though, once you taste pig of the month you'll never go back to ordinary pigs.
You'll eat this pig and weep because you'll realize what you've been missing all these years. Pig of the month tastes different from the regular smoked pigs, that would be like comparing a thick juicy steak to a hotdog. It makes great gift for any meat lover, but it makes the best gift when you give it to yourself. Describing the taste with words doesn't do it justice. You gotta try this for yourself.
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I emailed back asking them to please refund my credit card, explaining the horrible mess and how horrid their customer service was. I heard nothing back– except a refund notification with no other written word from the company. Two days later— still waiting for my refund, I will be turning them into my bank tomorrow for fraud.
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The heat wave that has struck the East Coast has taken its tole on northern New York communities. The long string of 90+ degree days, coupled with the high humidity has driven many to buy up air conditioners and fans at a rapid rate.
North Country stores have been seeing A/C units fly off shelves since the beginning of the week. "We sold out of air conditioners pretty much Monday. By noon Tuesday, they were all gone," said Travis J. Kuder, manager of Home Depot in Watertown, in a quote to the Daily Courier and Observer. "I have two fans left out of hundreds we had."
At Sears in Potsdam, sales associate Jadian R. LaFountain said all of the smaller air conditioners suitable for home use were gone. "We sold out of them on the second hot day," she said.
According to the Daily Courier-Observer, the run on air conditioners is typical of North Country consumers, who often don't buy until a heat wave leaves them sticky and irritable.
"We'll get that week or two when everyone wants one. After that, we don't sell anymore," Mr. Kuder said. "I don't even know if I'm going to get anymore."
Luckily for North Country residents, and for those in the surrounding regions suffering from the heat, a little break is expected to come soon. According to the National Weather Service, storms are expected to scatter the region next week, and push the temperatures down into the mid to low 80s. Hopefully, the heat wave will break and residents of the region will catch a cool breeze to finish the summer.


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As aesthetician Sophie Boshnajaku came at us with a compression airbrusher filled with self-tanning solution, we felt like a Buick getting a paint job. She applied a bit more to our elbows and knees (areas other spas and salons leave lighter), claiming that fair skin like ours would become darker there if exposed to real sun. We were a bit worried, because the $75 treatment hadn't included some kind of exfoliating scrub beforehand. But after a few hours, our body—even those elbows and knees—had a toasty brown tan that lasted a full week.
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Sinead Salon and Spa
Janet Doherty
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When we checked in, the receptionist offered us tea or wine to unwind, but we decided to use our time in the waiting area to mentally prepare for the ordeal to come. Silly us: Between Doherty's soothing Irish brogue and the delicate pink wax specifically formulated for the bikini area, we were completely comfortable. Before she got down to business, we laid it all on the table, discussing how much we wanted off (not everything) and how much pain we could realistically endure (not much). Applying just the right amount of pressure, she ripped away the cloth strips quickly—and with much less pain than we expected. Admittedly, there were a few red bumps immediately afterward, but by the next morning everything was as smooth as can be.
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Easy on the nerves and the skin.
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7363 N. Greenview Ave.
With its crystal chandeliers, candy-striped walls, and gilded mirrors, this cozy skin-care boutique resembles something out of a fairy tale. Roselli led us to a treatment room that wasn't too hot or (thankfully) too cold, and airbrushed us with a coconut-scented formula. When we left 15 minutes later, our tan was barely noticeable. But by the time we woke up the next morning, our gorgeous honey hue was just right.
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Scrubs, rubs, and wraps are like dreams: intense while you're having them, but easily forgotten. Not the peel-based Alpha Beta Restorative Body Treatment: "Your skin will look bright after the treatment and weeks from now," our aesthetician promised. The four-step system blends alpha and beta hydroxy acids and vitamins A, C, and E. She swathed us, one body section at a time, in Dr. Dennis Gross MD Skincare Alpha Beta Daily Peel pads, which left our skin tingling. To top it off, we were massaged with an oil-free green-tea lotion that felt divine. And turns out, our aesthetician was right: Weeks later, our skin was nothing short of dreamy.
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With self-tanning, we tend to keep our eyes on the prize—and the clock. Not so during our hour at this West Loop spa, where our aesthetician's training as a masseuse meant that the bronzing came with generous kneading of our most knotted muscles. She slathered a bracing grape-seed scrub from neck to toe to exfoliate, then rubbed the tanning solution on our skin. And the payoff didn't disappoint: Our legs looked longer and more toned; our abs, flatter.
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A stubborn cold kept us in seclusion for nearly a week, but we re-emerged to the land of the living with this treatment's assault of brisk scents. A revitalizing citrus body scrub, a smooth mud mask that smelled like a dewy English garden, a tingling scalp massage with energizing peppermint oil, and a head-to-toe massage with a thick cinnamon body cream. We may call in sick soon—just to go back for more.
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We shed our workday worries along with our rough skin during the Bindi, a 90-minute, five-part herbal treatment that's a favorite among this spa's extensive offerings. A dry brushing and a botanical body mask with coriander and cardamom are masterfully administered by our technician. She slathered a sandalwood-scented oil infusion from neck to toes to hydrate skin and wrapped us in a solar blanket to marinate. She discourages showering for 24 hours after the Bindi (to maximize the oil's skin-softening power), so we blotted off as much as we could before heading back (a little slippery and rumpled) to work. Next time, we'll schedule this on a day off.


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JACKSON – Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday named former Hinds County Sheriff Malcolm McMillin to lead the state Parole Board.
The five-member board decides which inmates are released from prison on parole.
"I wanted to choose someone who has an extensive law enforcement background and knowledge of the criminal justice system." Bryant said of McMillin, who served as sheriff of Mississippi's largest county from 1991 to 2011 before losing the Democratic primary to current Sheriff Tyrone Lewis.
McMillin must be confirmed by the state Senate. Shannon Warnock, the board's previous chairman, is stepping down voluntarily. Warnock and the four other Parole Board members had been re-nominated by Bryant, though the Senate had yet to confirm them.
McMillin served for a time as administrative assistant to the board, and said he didn't foresee major changes to its operations.
"I'll do the job in such a fashion that you will never be embarrassed," he told Bryant at a news conference.
The board also investigates applicants for gubernatorial pardons and makes recommendations. However, Mississippi governors aren't bound by the board's recommendations.
The board recommended in favor of pardons for many of the people who got reprieves from former Gov. Haley Barbour as he left office in January, but was against some.
Bryant said again Monday that he was sympathetic to imposing further notice requirements before a pardon could be granted, but stopped short of endorsing those efforts.
He said again that he expected to reserve pardons for people who could present clear evidence of innocence.
"I think the Supreme Court has clearly said the governor had the authority for the pardons," Bryant said of Barbour. "That was his decision."
Bryant said he supports the Parole Board continuing as a full-time job for each of the five members. Rep. Mark Formby, R-Picayune, has proposed a part-time parole board with a full time executive director.
"The more I understand the responsibilities of the board, it seems to be working very effectively," Bryant said. "It is a full-time responsibility. I expect it to remain as such."
Parole Board members make between $70,000 and $80,000 a year said board member Betty Lou Jones. The governor's office and the Parole Board did not immediately say how much McMillin would be paid.


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Jan. 27, 2010
TEMPE, Ariz. -
Arizona State Sun Devil Baseball will be naming an All-Decade Team for the 2000's. The 25-man roster is made up of players who played at least two seasons at Arizona State and who played in the past decade.
Dennis Wyrick, INFIELD/CATCHER, 2000-2003
Over his four year career in the Maroon and Gold, all Dennis Wyrick did was a little of everything. The versatile jack-of-all-trades played shortstop, second base and caught, all the while putting up solid offensive numbers. A career .338 hitter, Wyrick played in 188 games as a Sun Devil, amassing 196 hits and 101 RBI. He was a member of the 2000 team that shared the Pac-10 title and was a honorable mention All-Pac-10 choice in 2001 as well as a Third Team Freshman All-American in 2000. He was selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the 23rd round of the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft.
From 2000 to 2009, Arizona State baseball won 433 games, 157 Pac-10 games, appeared in the NCAA Tournament in each year and reached the College World Series three times. The Sun Devils won four Pac-10 titles, including the last three, finished in the Top 5 in the nation three times and saw 47 players earn First Team All-Pac-10 honors. Over the past 10 years, ASU has had six Pac-10 Players of the Year, two Pac-10 Pitchers of the Year, two Pac-10 Newcomers of the Year, a Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year, three Academic All-Americans, 33 All-Americans and a National Player of the Year. Since 2000, 78 Sun Devils have been selected in the MLB Draft.
Petey Paramore, Catcher, 2006-2008
Petey ParamoreEric Sogard, Infield, 2005-2007
Eric SogardBrett Wallace, Infield, 2006-2008
Dennis Wyrick, Infield/Catcher, 2000-2003


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College Hockey:Mannino, Power Play Key Denver Past Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — Riding the netminding prowess of Peter Mannino and a resurgent power play, Denver cruised to a 5-1 win over homestanding Minnesota at Mariucci Arena Friday.
Despite being outshot 37-28, the opportunistic Pioneers got 36 saves from their star goaltender and three power-play goals after coming into the evening zero for tneir last 31 tries with the extra skater, dating back to DU's season opener against Maine.
"We're just staying with it here," said Tyler Ruegsegger, who scored two of Denver's three power-play markers. "We try not to get frustrated — just stay focused, keep working hard and practice at [the power play], and when you do that it starts to pay off."
The win was Mannino's first over Minnesota, and while the netminder acknowledged being aware of that fact, he downplayed its importance.
"Any time you play against a big-time team like this and get a victory, it feels good," he said. "You've got to put it behind you and hope for another one."
Naturally, Mannino's teammates were less frugal in their praise.
"Peter played a great game, no question about that, because they're a great team," said Ruegsegger. "They had lots of scoring chances, and they have a ton of skilled players. You need your goalie to play like that to have a chance to win."
Minnesota, meanwhile, started strong but lost ground as the game went along despite the advantage in shots.
"That's the mental part of it," said Minnesota head coach Don Lucia. "It's that mental toughness, mental strength that no matter what's going on you've got to continue to play the same way throughout the game, and tonight I'm not sure that we played with that."
With the win, Denver moved to 5-2-0 overall and 2-1-0 in the WCHA, while the loss dropped the Gophers to 4-3-0 and 0-3-0 in WCHA play for the first time since 1993-94. Minnesota has never begun a WCHA campaign 0-4-0 in the league's half-century of existence.
Early on, the Gophers dominated possession and scoring opportunities, but — in a theme that was repeated all game — could not convert.
The Gophers stepped up the pressure midway through the first but Mannino was equal to the task, and the Pioneers rewarded their goaltender's effort by taking the lead. Racing up the boards for a puck in the neutral zone, sophomore winger Rhett Rakhshani slanted wide before firing five-hole on Minnesota netminder Jeff Frazee (23 saves) at 16:57 to give Denver a 1-0 lead.
Rakhshani's tally was the first opening-period goal allowed by Minnesota in four games, and left the Gophers in a hole despite a 12-6 advantage in shots on net.
Early in the second period, Denver extended its lead after a tripping call against Minnesota's Cade Fairchild. On the resulting power play, Ruegsegger lined up a shot from the top of the left circle and fired through the legs of both defenseman R.J. Anderson and Frazee to make it 2-0 at 2:23.
Frazee, who gave up five goals on 28 Denver shots, certainly didn't play his best game, but Lucia wasn't about to point fingers.
"When the goalie's a little bit off on a given night, the rest of the team has to step up and respond," Lucia said.
The Gophers missed an opportunity to narrow the DU advantage when defenseman Kevin Wehrs missed an empty net with Mannino down, and instead Denver made it 3-0 on Ruegsegger's second goal of the game and fourth of the season, again on the power play. This one was a pinpoint shot at 16:02 that landed just inside the left post and under the crossbar.
Late in the frame, the Pioneers earned a brief five-on-three when a Kyle Okposo hook was followed by a bench minor against Minnesota for too many men. Still on the power play 43 seconds into the third, Brock Trotter salted the game away with his fourth goal of the season, putting away the short rebound of Rakhshani's shot.
Six minutes later Denver added a fifth goal on a tic-tac-toe passing sequence that ended with Tyler Bozak's putaway into a half-empty net. Minnesota's Ryan Flynn finally ended Mannino's shutout bid with his second goal of the season at 11:10 to account for the final score of 5-1.
A bit of chippiness was evident — much of it thanks to skaters getting tangled up with goaltenders — and that culminated in two mini-rumbles late in the third period for which 38 minutes in penalties were handed out. Neither squad, though, saw anything other than a good, hard-fought conference matchup.
"That's going to happen. There are scuffles around the net, pucks bouncing around," said Mannino. "They're going to come hard; they're going to try and bang in any rebounds they can. [I] just try to find the puck and let my 'D' take over."
Minnesota and Denver rematch Sunday afternoon in a rare 2 p.m. contest.
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- Towards the Republic
- Rembrandt's drawings in Pera
- Art in Istanbul
- Yılmabaşar mother and daughter at ACC
- Helikon celebrates its 10th year
- Art fair in Ankara
- From Venice to Istanbul
- From traditional to modern
- Seventh season at İş Sanat
- Mozart on the Bosphorus
- 25 concerts at CRR
- World-famous pianists come to Antalya
- Ankara sings jazz
- Blues Festival tours Turkey
- Festival on Wheels goes international
- Ankara art fair
Rembrandt's drawings in Pera
Works by 'Painter of Light' Rembrandt van Rijn, the 400th anniversary of whose birth is being celebrated throughout the world this year, are being exhibited for the first time in Turkey at the Pera Museum of the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation. The exhibition, 'Rembrandt and His Circle--Drawings', which opens the season at the museum, consists of drawings by the great 17th century master and his circle from the collection of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum of Rotterdam. Supported by Koç Allianz, it runs from 20 October through 7 January in the Pera Museum's 4th and 5th floor galleries. Lectures and panel discussions by international experts on Rembrandt and his work will be open to art lovers free of charge in the Museum auditorium for the duration. Concurrently, the Pera Museum has opened its third floor gallery to an exhibition of old Istanbul photographs from its own collection, 'From Konstantiniyye to Istanbul--Photographs of the Rumeli Shore of the Bosphorus from the Mid-19th to the 20th Century'. A book, by architect M. Sinan Genim and scholar Ahmet Abut, has been compiled by the Istanbul Research Institute to accompany the exhibition, which includes photographs by such period masters as Robertson, Kargopulo, Pascal Sebah, Sebah&Joaillier, the Abdullah Brothers, and the Gülmez Brothers.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Former University of Iowa wrestling national champion Chuck Yagla will serve as honorary captain Friday when the Hawkeyes host Ohio State on Mediacom Mat inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Yagla, a native of Waterloo, Iowa, won the 150-pound NCAA championship in 1975 and 1976. His first individual title helped Iowa capture its first of 23 NCAA championships. The Hawkeyes defended the crown in 1976 when Yagla was named Iowa's first Outstanding Wrestler of the NCAA Championships. He is one of 10 Hawkeyes to earn the honor.
Yagla owned a career record of 129-17-2 before graduating in 1976. He won the Big Ten title in his final two years of competition and, after college, was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team. He helped Iowa captured four NCAA and four Big Ten championships as a member of Dan Gable's coaching staff at Iowa from 1978-82.
His 44 career pins rank 10th in school history, and his 41 wins during the 1975-76 season tie for eighth most in a single season.
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The MakerBot was on loan from the UM3DLab last week, while Chris successfully printed the plastic parts for the RepRap (left).
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MEDINA — An outbreak of measles in central Ohio has prompted Medina County health officials to warn residents to get vaccinated if they aren't already immunized.
An outbreak of measles in Knox and Holmes counties has prompted health officials around the region to encourage residents to get immunized against the virus.
"Immunization is the most effective way to protect yourself and your family from this highly contagious respiratory disease," Medina County Health Commissioner Krista Wasowski said. "When fully administered, the vaccine is 97 percent effective in preventing the measles."
Measles symptoms appear one to three weeks after a person is exposed to the virus. Symptoms include fever, cough, rash and pink eye.
The vaccine usually is given to children as a combination to prevent measles, mumps and rubella, known as the MMR vaccine. In the United States, two doses are recommended for children, the first at 12 to 15 months of age, and the second dose at 4 to 6 years of age.
Adults born during or after 1957 who have not had measles or been vaccinated are at high risk and should get at least one dose of the vaccine, the Health Department recommended.
Adults at high risk, including college students, those who work in a hospital or medical facility, international travelers or women of childbearing age, are encouraged to get two doses of the vaccine. The Health Department urges residents to contact your doctor to make sure you and your family members have been fully vaccinated.
According to Knox County health officials, the outbreak there includes 13 suspected cases in the northern part of the county.
Four people who traveled to the Philippines on a humanitarian trip were infected and brought the disease back to Ohio. In the Philippines, an outbreak of the disease has led to more than 20,000 cases of measles and at least 50 deaths, according to the Medina County Health Department.
The department said the other suspected cases are family members of the four travelers. The confirmed cases include people ranging in age from 2 to 48 years old.
In addition to the measles outbreak, a mumps outbreak that started in January in the Columbus area already has 260 cases. More than half of those cases are traced to an outbreak at the Ohio State University.


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OWENSBORO, Ky. - A woman in jail for public intoxication was accused of assaulting a jailer by squirting breast milk at her. WYMT-TV reported that a 31-year-old woman was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. But as she was changing into an inmate uniform, she squirted breast milk into the face of a female deputy who was with her.
The woman now faces a felony charge of third degree assault on a police officer. Her bond was set at $10,000.
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• Master of Science, Environmental Engineering, The University of Tennessee
• Bachelor of Science, Engineering Physics, Western Kentucky University
• Project-level analysis (CO, PM, MSATs)
• Mobile source emission models (MOVES and Emfac)
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• Mike´s specialty is designing and conducting studies to assess the effects of transportation projects on ambient air quality and public health.
• Before accepting a position with the Planning and Environment Team of the FHWA Midwestern Resource Center, he worked as an air quality consultant.
• During his career, Mike has consulted for several State Departments of Transportation including Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
• He has performed numerous air quality impact assessments to satisfy the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act.
• These assessments were for major projects such as a 12-lane freeway in Atlanta; a multi-modal
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• He has also worked on a variety of ambient air and meteorological monitoring investigations, including urban-scale background carbon monoxide and lead levels in Atlanta; transport ozone concentrations in Augusta;
• Emergency response to hazardous chemical spills near train derailments in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas.
• Mike has developed computer models for predicting concentrations near signalized highway intersections; as well as, for predicting occurrences of fog on highways near large industrial sources of water vapor.
• He has also developed computer models for predicting pollutant concentrations from industrial sources in the cavity region of a building wake due to plume downwash; in urban complex terrain; and for conditions of long-range plume
• Mike has conducted research on the accuracy and precision of air dispersion models used nationally to predict concentrations near highways and industrial sources.
• He has developed and taught workshops and graduate level courses on air dispersion modeling.
• Articles authored by Mike have appeared in several professional journals including the Transportation Research Record and Atmospheric Environment.
• He co-authored two chapters in the Environmental Protection Agency´s 1979 update of Air Quality Criteria for Carbon Monoxide.
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Joint Colloquium Distinguished Lecture Series
Network Information Theory
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Few mathematical results have had as much impact on the foundation of the information age as Shannon's 1948 point-to-point communication theorems and the Ford--Fulkerson 1956 max-flow min-cut theorem. However, the model of a network as consisting of point-to-point links and dumb forwarding nodes assumed in these seminal contributions does not capture key aspects of the emerging wireless network based information age. The wireless channel is inherently a shared, broadcast medium, naturally allowing for multicasting, but also creating a complex tradeoff between competition for resources and cooperation for the common good. Many new network applications require very high data rates (video), are highly interactive (games), and are distributed in nature (peer-to-peer, distributed mobile agents), requiring more judicious optimization of network resources and the development of new communication and computing schemes.
Work on network information theory over the past 40 years has aimed to capture these tradeoffs and challenges by studying network models with multiple sources and destinations, broadcasting, interference, relaying, distributed compression, and distributed computing. Although a complete theory is yet to be developed, several beautiful (and perhaps useful) results have been developed. I will review some of these results and present a recent result that extends network coding to noisy multi-source multicast networks.
Abbas El Gamal is the Hitachi America Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He received his B.Sc Honors degree from Cairo University in 1972, the M.S. in Statistics and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1977 and 1978, respectively. His research interests and contributions are in the areas of network information theory, digital imaging, and integrated circuit design. He has contributed over 180 papers and 30 patents in these areas. He has cofounded and served on the board of directors and advisory boards of several Silicon Valley companies. He is visiting Berkeley this fall as a McKay Fellow.
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How to Read a Long Chapter Book in Two or Three Hours
Do you have a book report due in a week? Do you want to get through that long novel so you can get that book report done as soon as possible? Read this guide to get you through that long-lasting book!
1Find a quiet place to read. The living room, or your own bedroom would be a good place.
2Close the door. Turn off any cell phone or pager you have, and turn the TV off. These electronics will only distract you and make reading slower.
3Now look at the Table of Contents.
- Record how many chapters you have to read.
- Separate reading times into different groups.
- Take breaks in between.
- For example, if the book has 40 chapters, you can read 8 chapters at a time and take 4 or 5 minute breaks in between. This way, you'll have 5 breaks, because 40 divided by 8 equals 5.
- Be sure to write this information down to remind yourself when to take breaks and how long to read before you take your breaks.
- Now, just estimate how much time each time period will be reading each group of chapters plus the breaks in between. Add up all the time periods to get a final answer of the total amount of time it will take you to read the whole book. You may use a calculator if you wish.
4Start reading the book. As you go along, you will get more into the book. Make sure not to get stuck on long words you don't understand. If you want to find out what they mean, jot down each word to make a list of the words you don't understand. Look them up in a dictionary later. Dictionary.com is also a good place to find definitions of words. Just type in the word in the search engine and look at the different meanings below. Be sure to finish the whole book, following the data you have recorded.
5Congratulations! You've finally finished the whole book! Treat yourself to a reward, you have done a great job! Write your book report later. It's best to give your mind a rest before writing a report. Just be sure not to put your book report off until the last minute. Write it the next day if possible.
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- Make sure that the place you are reading is cleared so you don't get distracted.
- Wear comfortable clothes, you can be more focused that way.
- Make sure the environment you are in is peaceful and quiet. If your brother is watching TV downstairs, ask him nicely to turn it down. Here's a solution! If you have headphones, plug them into the TV. There should be a jack where you can plug it in at the front of the television. Then the person who's watching TV can hear the noise through the headphones and watch TV without bothering you!
- If you know how to speed read, do so! This will help you get through the book you're reading much faster!
- Take notes or highlight important things in the book so you can go back to it and review it, so you don't forget it later for a test or quiz.
- If you're fast at typing, type out the schedule of reading your book on the computer and print it out. Otherwise, write it. If you type slowly, you will just waste time typing when you should be reading.
- Set aside a time just for fun.
- Don't spend too much time on the routine for reading your book. Remember, the whole point is to get your book read fast! You don't want to waste time doing something unnecessary when you should be reading! Just be sure the routine is accurate enough to follow.
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- The book for your book report
- 2 or 3 hours to read
- A quiet area to read
- A piece of paper and a pen
- A calculator (Optional)
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The Canadian company will invest $550 million to move a methanol production facility to Geismar in Ascension Parish, creating 130 jobs.
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September 1, 2014 Ryo Miyaichi News
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Arsenal have loaned Miyaichi to FC Twente for the 2014/15 season.
Miyaichi was not getting any first-team football with Arsenal, so he'll head to the Netherlands to get some more playing time under his belt.
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August 14, 2014
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Miyaichi (hamstring) is close to a return to training, manager Arsene Wenger said Thursday.
Even when he is back to full fitness, Miyaichi will have a minimal role for Arsenal.
June 2, 2014
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Miyaichi did not make the final 23-man roster for Japan in the World Cup, Proven Quality reports.
Miyaichi resides with Arsenal, but he's been an afterthought during his time with the team since 2011. This has led to a lack of playing experience and ultimately his name being left off Japan's roster. The winger is just 21 years old and has many more opportunities to represent his country, although he's been unable to live up to the hype that has surrounded him since a young age.
January 1, 2014
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Ryo (hamstring) is available off the bench for Wednesday's match against Cardiff City.
With Aaron Ramsey (thigh) and Mesut Ozil (shoulder) out Wednesday, and Tomas Rosicky (calf), Theo Walcott (shoulder), and Jack Wilshere (ankle) all needing to pass late fitness tests to play against Cardiff, Ryo could be forced into action.
January 11, 2013
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Miyaich remains out with an ankle injury and his return date is uncertain, the Kyodo news service reports.
Wigan Athletic manager Roberto Martinez had said he could return in the third round of the FA Cup last weekend against Bournemouth, but now his timetable is unclear.
August 13, 2012
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Arsenal have sent Miyaichi to Wigan for a season long loan, ESPN Soccernet reports.
Miyaichi will see more time on the field for Wigan than he would have at Arsenal.
February 26, 2012
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Miyaichi made his first Premier League start against Chelsea on Saturday that saw his Bolton side not score a single goal.
Arsenal sent Miyaichi to Bolton to get some much needed seasoning, with the hope that Owen Coyle and the rest of the Wanderers coaching staff can bring the best out of him.
January 31, 2012
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Arsenal have agreed to send Miyaichi on loan to Bolton for the remainder of the season, Sky Sports reports.
Miyaichi has not been in any Premier League games since joining Arsenal, so the move to Bolton was in hope that he will be able to get some much needed playing time.


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Wellness refers to a mindset or lifestyle that is conducive toward well-being. Our way of life affects our environment.
The absence of wellness occurs when we have not made good choices usually when encountering a life transition. Change is difficult, and adapting to such times takes skill. Wellness is an attitude that rolls with the punches life throws at us.
So the trick to maintaining wellness is identifying these transitional times before they become crises that coincide with illness, depression, anger, dissatisfaction, financial problems, career discontent, or relational infidelity. Times that lack harmony or peace merely require the redirection of mental, emotional, and spiritual energy because life is evolving, and past coping skills have become inadequate to meet the present challenge.
One must understand the inevitable stages of a lifetime. We begin as children, become adults, and mature into parents that are responsible for other human beings. As transactional analysis explains, we respond as parents, adults, or children depending upon the roles we play in significant relationships. A parent is a caretaker, an adult is an independent decision maker, and a child submits to authority.
However, we also play roles in our emotional evolution which differ depending upon our environment. We might be a parent at home, a child at work merely doing as instructed by our superiors, and an adult as president of the homeowner's association.
The same stages of evolution are true of our spiritual maturation. As seekers of wisdom, we begin by accepting the rules and regulations of the masters and guides that are wiser than ourselves. Then, as we become adults, we are given responsibility such as who to marry and how to express gratitude and appreciation for that which is greater than us. However, in every successful spiritual awakening, the initiate realizes his or her insignificance to the totality of being. This occurs when true understanding is gained, and the wise one is accepted as an elder or sage in the community.
In cases where true respect for autonomy is challenged, a victim, rescuer, and persecutor dynamic can develop. The victimized child can be rescued by a parent from a predator adult's attempt to discipline. These types of situations help explain how the lack of harmony and peace manifests as illness, financial difficulty, unemployment, and infidelity.
When dealing with discord, one needs to understand that one is usually moving to a new stage in physical, emotional, and/or spiritual understanding. The first major crises we encounter are our transitions to adulthood. We go from being submissive to an independent decision maker. Next, we transition to spouse or partner. We have to learn how to compromise in order to share our life with another. Similarly, those that become parents must transition to the role of teacher until the child becomes an adult. And of course, at such times, women experience "empty nest" syndrome and men often have mid-life crises.
A mid-life crisis occurs as an adult struggles to develop the skill set needed to become an elder. The role of parent/provider is not truly the role that the soul needs to take to find self-satisfaction; it is merely a stage in evolution. Thus, an Identity crisis occurs as we move from being an independent authority to an understanding that the world is far more complex and supernal than we ever imagined.
Consequently, we need to spend less time focusing upon our situation and more upon our maturation. Wellness is just accepting that some decisions help us transition better than others. Diet, exercise, meditation, prayer, service, and creative expression all tend to help us transition more easily. We will make these inevitable transitions; it just depends upon whether we want them to be joyful or painful.