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Banner Estrella receives stroke recognition
PHOENIX (Nov. 20, 2012) – Banner Estrella Medical Center just received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines - Stroke Bronze Award.
The award recognizes the nonprofit hospital's commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations.
"With a stroke, time lost is brain lost, and this award demonstrates that our staff is committed to providing care that has been shown in the scientific literature to quickly and efficiently treat stroke patients with evidence-based protocols," said Teressa Mitchell, Stroke program manager for the hospital.
To receive the Get With The Guidelines- Bronze Award, a facility has to meet at least 85 percent compliance in each of the seven Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Achievement Measures of performance for 90 consecutive days.
These measures include aggressive use of medications, such as antithrombotics, anticoagulation therapy, DVT prophylaxis, cholesterol reducing drugs and smoking cessation, all aimed at reducing death and disability and improving the lives of stroke patients.
According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is one of the leading causes of death and serious, long-term disability in the United States. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every four minutes; and 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.
Located on the southeast corner of the Loop 101 Freeway and Thomas Road, nonprofit Banner Estrella Medical Center is a 214-bed full-service hospital offering general surgery, orthopedics, women and infants services, a full cardiac program with open-heart surgery, emergency services, and medical imaging services. Banner Estrella is part of Banner Health, the leading provider of health care services in the Valley.
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Slow time in the compiler area
By Dkildahl -Oracle on Jun 01, 2011
You may have noticed that I stopped posting my bi-weekly summary of compiler fixes. I plan to pick it up again when JDK 7 development takes off.
Right now is kind of a slow period and that is nice. Later today, JSR 199 should move to the final approval ballot (FAB). This is the last stage it needs to go through before the final release which is delivered in JDK 6. All JSRs including the umbrella JSR for the release must go through this process before we can ship the release.
The only changes that we will make to JDK 6 at this time is to fix show stopper issues. This means that most of my team is looking at either improving documentation, writing sample code, making it easier to build the compiler, or JDK 7.
Personally, I'm procrastinating on writing compiler documentation by fixing bugs to go into JDK 6 update 1 and JDK 7. So far I have lined up a little over twenty fixes. I'll give a summary when I know more about how you can get them. It is most likely JDK 7 b02 but we do not have weekly builds since we are focusing our release engineering and quality resources on JDK 6. So I don't know when.
Besides pruning my bug list, I'm also helping with figuring out which language features Sun would like to see in JDK 7. Clearly, we're looking at code abstraction but there is a lot ofother ideas floating around. Another thing we are investigating is if it is possible make generic types a little more convenient. For example, code like this is pretty annoying:
Map<Comparable<? extends Number>, List<Number>> x = new HashMap<Comparable<? extends Number>, List<Number>>();
James Gosling has returned to the Java programming language and I really like his approach. I think the only problem we have is that we have too many good ideas and just one tiny release to put them into.I also decided to update the about page on this blog after reading Jakob Nielsen's top ten on blog usability.

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The 2006 Surazo Carmenère Reserva Especial is the progeny of one the decade's finest vintages in Chile for Carmenère. It is deep ruby in color and imbued with an amplifying bouquet of freshly picked berries, bell pepper, and cedar. Moreover, on the palate one encounters an expansive center of smooth berry flavors infused with deft hints of dark chocolate and roasted coffee. Happily, all of these flavors persist to the wine's racy finish. In short, the 2006 Surazo Carmenère Reserva Especial recalls all that is beguiling and hauntingly beautiful about Carmenère – Chile's emblematic red grape. For optimum enjoyment, we suggest allowing this medium-bodied, classically wrought Bordeaux style Carmenère at least twenty minutes or more of aeration before consuming at cool room temperature (62°-65° F).
Carmenère fans will find Surazo's 2006 Reserva Especial delectable to drink on its own. However, this extroverted Carmenère is a versatile wine, so like most mature Bordeaux style wines it will truly shine at table. And best of all, one need not have a flair for haute cuisine to see this wine work its magic. A simple butter and herb roasted chicken, tender veal chop, or grilled sirloin steak is all this beautifully aged wine needs to elevate a meal to a feast. For those more adept at the culinary arts, we suggest a grilled loin of lamb served with herb and chèvre stuffed peaches and garlic and rosemary infused mashed potatoes. Sizzling chicken or steak fajitas sautéed with plenty of red and yellow peppers provide good company, too, but then so do spicy empanadas, flatbreads, pizzas, and something as simple as red pepper hummus with pita chips, so as you like it. Enjoy!
Surazo is made by Emilio de Solminihac at his beloved Santa Monica estate in Chile's Rapel Valley. Emilio de Solminihac, more affectionately known as Don Emilio to a burgeoning legion of young Chilean winemakers, is the guardian of traditional winemaking in Chile and one of South America's finest winemakers. He is also an affable gentleman who seems cut from a bygone age. Hailing from a wine making family, Don Emilio received his first training in wine as a young man while working in his grandfather's vineyard and winery. Later he would graduate from the Universidad de Chile with a degree in agricultural engineering, and subsequently depart for France, where he would study at the Université de Bordeaux under the legendary Emile Peynaud – then France's most renowned oenologist. While attending the Université de Bordeaux, Emilio earned that venerable institution's esteemed degree in oenology, the first Chilean to do so. Today, Emilio de Solminihac is revered as much for his legacy of fine, age-worthy wines as he is for his numerous oenological innovations – many of which have helped to transform the Rapel Valley into the Napa Valley of Chile.
Today, Santa Monica reigns as an oasis of calm and simple elegance. Beyond its gates lay long rows of well-tended vines that doze between the towering Andes and the coastal mountain ranges. From these neat rows of vines that hold just about every grape imaginable, Don Emilio fashions a bevy of delicious wines. His highly acclaimed Gran Reserva and Private Reserve Tierra de Sol Cabernet Sauvignon offerings under the Santa Monica and De Solminihac labels and his Surazo Carmenère constitute the signature wines at Santa Monica. In them, one can taste and see Don Emilio's passion for making traditional Bordeaux style offerings, with a personal touch. These are complex, age-worthy wines that are as endearing as they are enduring.
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Spring is here, start growing cool season vegetable garden
At last January and February are over and the cool spring season is here. It's the best time to get ready and plant for your cool season spring vegetable garden. Here's the first in a series of articles of an ABCs listing of what to plant in a spring vegetable garden from someone who knows.
P. Allen Smith, gardening expert recommendations
P. Allen Smith, noted gardening expert, in his article on planting a spring vegetable garden, says, "Cool season vegetables are those that can thrive during the shorter days and cool temperatures of spring and fall," he says also that some vegetables develop better flavors when tweaked by early spring frost while many summer season vegetable garden favorites like okra, squash and tomatoes want extended, hot days to produce.
Place seed order early, start indoors if too cold outside
Allen suggests the first thing to do is place your cool season vegetable garden seed order. If it arrives before spring starts in your region, it could still be too soon to plant the garden seeds outside, but various a cool season vegetable can be started from seed indoors 6 - 8 weeks prior to the frost free date in your growing zone area. He adds that a few vegetable garden transplants can be positioned outside a few weeks before the frost free date as well.
Deep South gardeners' resource
Allen adds,
Now I foresee the comments from readers in the Deep South already, "This doesn't apply to me!" Well, you are right. You are already mid-way through your cool season vegetable garden time frame, but there is still time to plant. A great resource for you is www.FloridaGardener.com.
He says that gardeners in the northern colder regions have such a small growing season that they will plant their cool and warm season vegetables almost side by side.
Know your zone frost dates, cover vegetables if unexpected freeze
Know when the last frost date is in your growing zone area before you start sowing seeds and planting. This determines when your spring growing season begins. Many on-line sites provide this information, Allen provides the zone chart below for the readers use.
He also reminds us vegetables can all be wiped out by a sudden, severe drop in temperature, so it's important to be prepared
…with something to drape over the crops if an overnight cold snap is expected. Simply cover your crops with newspaper, old sheets or frost blankets. Just remember to remove the covering the next morning.
Last Frost Dates by Zone
Zone 3 1 May / 31 May
Zone 4 1 May / 30 May
Zone 5 30 Mar / 30 Apr
Zone 6 30 Mar / 30 Apr
Zone 7 30 Mar / 30 Apr
Zone 8 28 Feb / 30 Mar
Zone 9 30 Jan / 28 Feb
Zone 10 30 Jan or before
Zone 11 Free of Frost throughout the year.
ABCs what to plant in spring vegetable garden, A-C
- Arugula – Sow seeds in the garden as soon as soil can be worked in spring. They will germinate in about 7 days and are ready to harvest in 3 to 4 weeks. For a continuous harvest, sow seeds every 2 weeks until temperatures heat up.
- Beets – Sow seeds in early spring as soon as the soil can be worked. Beets prefer a well-drained, sandy soil. Avoid high nitrogen fertilizers as this will encourage top growth at the expense of root development. As with all root crops good soil aeration is key to uniform, robust development. Consistent moisture is also important. Keep areas weed free to avoid competition for nutrients.
- Broccoli – Broccoli seed can be sown directly in the garden 4 weeks before the last frost date in your area or set out transplants 2 weeks before the last frost date. The ideal day time temperature for broccoli is between 65 and 80 degrees. Feed the plants 3 weeks after transplanting into the garden. Use a low nitrogen fertilizer.
- Cabbage – Start seeds indoors 6 to 8 weeks before the last front date or plant transplants in the garden 2 weeks before that date. Direct sow in the garden immediately after the last frost date. Cabbage plants are heavy feeders that require fertile soil rich in organic matter and consistent moisture.
- Carrots – Sow seeds in spring about 2 weeks before the last frost date. Carrots need deep, loose soil to form a robust root. Keep the bed weeded to avoid competition for nutrients from other plants. Too much nitrogen will result in forked roots. When the seedlings are about 2-inches tall, thin them so there is about 1 to 4-inches between them. Cover the shoulders with mulch or soil to keep them from turning green and bitter.
- Collards – Collard transplants can be planted 4 to 6 weeks before the last frost date in your area. Plant in fertile, well drained soil with a pH of 6.5 to 6.8. Rich soil encourages rapid growth and tender leaves, which are the best tasting collards.
See our second article ABCs what to plant in spring vegetable garden, D-P for more spring vegetables to plant this season.
Allen's Good to Know Tips:
- Vegetables need 7 to 8 hours of full sun daily. Cool season vegetables get by on 6, some can even be planted in partial shade.
- Framed Bed Soil Recipe: 50% existing garden soil, 25% aged manure, 25% compost or humus
- Gardeners in tropical regions plant & grow cool season vegetables in fall and winter.
Source: P. Allen Smith
P. Allen Smith is an award-winning designer, gardening and lifestyle expert. He is the host of two public television programs, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table and the syndicated 30-minute show P. Allen Smith Gardens.
Smith is one of America's most recognized and respected garden and design experts, providing ideas and inspiration through multiple media venues.


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Your Horse Live 2007, which was hosted at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, was a huge success. There were loads of great demos conducted by a range of equestrian celebrities, including Carl Hester, Ruth Edge, Beverley Brightman and William Fox-Pitt. We also have a great bombproofing demonstration by the Greater Manchester Police Mounted Division.
Beverley BrightmanDressage to Music
Champion dressage rider Beverley Brightman shows us all that dressage to music can be done – without a metronome.
Beverley BrightmanRiding a Pas de Deux
Grand Prix dressage rider Beverley Brightman and Martin Schleicher show us how to do a Pas de Deux at Medium Level on Elementary graded horses.
Carl Hester demoChoose and train a young horse
Olympic dressage star Carl Hester shows off two very different five-year-old horses that have the potential to go to the top in dressage.
Carl Hester demoGetting to Grand Prix level
Carl Hester explains what it takes to be the best and he also demonstrates some of the more difficult Grand Prix movements.
Charlotte Dennis andDavid Stuart
Natural horsemanship practitioners Charlotte Dennis and David Stuart show how to build trust and confidence with your horse.
Chris Bartle FlatworkPrivate Lesson
Your Horse reader Gillian Donohoe won a lesson with Chris Bartle at Your Horse Live in 2007. Chris uses the private lesson to improve her flatwork.
Getting Started in Endurance Riding with Endurance GB
Hold onto your saddle for Endurance GB's gripping race ride experience, filmed at Your Horse Live. A fantastic introduction to Endurance riding.
Greater Manchester Police:Training a horse to be bombproof
The GMP Mounted Division demonstrate some of their ultimate bombproof horses – with training tips to try at home.
Matt RyanEffective Cross Country
Top International event rider Matt Ryan demonstrates arena schooling exercises to help you ride effectively cross-county.
Paul Hayler DressagePrivate Lesson
International Grand Prix dressage rider Paul Hayler helps an everyday rider get the best out of her novice level horse.
Ruth Edge DressagePrivate Lesson
British Eventing champion Ruth Edge gives Lauren and Boston a few tips on showing and dressage, to try and make him more rideable for the judges.
William Fox-PittPreparing to go cross country
Confidence-building cross-country training exercises that you can do at home, with 2007 Burghley champion William Fox-Pitt.
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Earns $30.4 Million First Night
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 grossed an estimated $30.4 million from Thursday night and midnight shows in North America, setting the stage for what could be a $150 million weekend.
If the final installment in the hit series keeps packing theaters at this pace, it will become the biggest opening in Twilight history.
The franchise's current top opening weekend belongs to The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which earned $142 million when it debuted in November 2009.
Its penultimate chapter, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, racked up $138 million over its opening weekend last November.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse remains the biggest overall earner in North America, at just over $300 million for its run.
Some projections have Breaking Dawn – Part 2 hitting as high as $158 million (including 10 p.m. Thursday grosses), but it's obviously too early to say.
Internationally, the film had grossed a cumulative $38.8 million so far from 37 territories.
The movie opened higher than Breaking Dawn – Part 1 in Mexico, and even set a non-holiday opening day record in Russia.
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It's still January.
You can still make a New Year resolution.
And you can make this your motto:
Going Green in 2014 !
OK. Kermit the Frog says it's not easy being green. And that may be true, for him. But for the rest of us, it really is easy to go green – environmentally green – that is.
Your "go green" resolution means you've decided to reduce, recycle and reuse a lot of everyday things in your life. It may be easier to do than you think. Plus you become an environmental hero because you help protect the earth, save energy and natural resources.
Sound good? If you live in Plano, your recycle resolution is made even easier. The city's made recycling a top priority and you'll join thousands of your fellow citizens who've resolved to recycle too.
How big is residential recycling in Plano? It's Texas-size big. It's about 18,000 tons big – or about as much as 89 blue whales big. City officials' report that's how many tons of recyclables, including aluminum cans, newspapers and other recyclable materials its residents generated the past year.
Kim Soto, Plano Residential Recycling and Zero Waste Coordinator, says more residents continue to join the recycling effort each year. A new Gold Star Cart program is under way to encourage residents to recycle more and reduce mixing non-recyclable items in their recycle cart. Soto says Gold Star Recyclers are eligible to earn a set of household stainless steel recycle cans and a free year of collection from Environmental Waste Services, a $196 value.
Plano residents can click here to join the Gold Star Cart Program. Residents who join will receive periodic email updates on the program and a Recycle Right Plano sticker for their recycle cart.
"Plano has long been a national leader when it comes to recycling, thanks in part to our residents and in part to our fully automated Single Stream collection system," said Steve Funk, Plano Environmental Waste Services Superintendent. "Not only can recycling help the environment, but we can all benefit from recycling everything we can around the house, at work and when we are out around town."
The city's Single-Stream Recycling program refers to having all recyclable materials co-mingled into one cart container that's rolled to the curb for pick-up. Fully automated refers to the type of truck used. Drivers from inside the truck collect materials from the roll cart with an automated arm that lifts and dumps the cart and places it back at the curb.
Robert Smouse, Plano Environmental Waste Services Manager, urges all Plano residents to reduce the waste they generate and maximize their efforts to recycle as much as they can. He strongly encourages citizens to use their single stream recycling cart, the weekly yard trimmings collection option and request household chemical collections when needed.
"All three Plano recycling programs help to reduce the city's total operational costs to provide the entire package of residential services and commercial and community based programs," Smouse said. "In addition, it helps to reuse valuable items, create additional environmental-based jobs and produce new products with less original resources."
Once collected, Plano residential recyclables are eventually transported to Republic Service's Material Recovery Facility in Ft. Worth. The state-of-the-art facility uses magnets, lasers, gravity and other techniques to sort and separate more than 500 tons of mixed recyclables each day. Separated materials are processed, baled and shipped to other facilities that process the recycled materials into a range of new items, from soda cans to plastic packing materials and more.
Republic Services officials note that re-purposing recyclable materials also saves valuable landfill space. Landfills are costly to build and operate, and recycling helps extend the life of a landfill and avoids the cost of having to build other landfills in the future.
Plano's Kim Soto noted that increasing the number of residents who recycle, and the amount they recycle, is an important way for Plano to improve the city's reputation as an environmentally sustainable community.
"We are proud of what we are able to accomplish and the positive response and participation from our residents," she added.
An Environmental Protection Agency study estimates that each American produces 1600 pounds of trash each year, according to Residential Recycling of Texas, Inc. That adds up to hundreds of thousands of tons of waste each year nationwide. Paper products are the biggest single trash item, generating as much as 40% of waste.
While many people believe recycling efforts were sparked by environmental concerns in the 1970s, reports show recycling has been around for hundreds of years.
A brief history of recycling history shared by Residential Recycling of Texas notes bronze scrap and other precious metals were collected and recycled in the 1600s.
In the U.S., widespread recycling efforts were boosted in the 1970s by two key economic factors: soaring energy costs and a growing awareness of the environmental impact and cost of mismanaged waste. As a result, reuse and recycling became a top priority among many governments and citizens nationwide.
The energy conservation savings were clear: aluminum recycling uses only 5% of the energy required to produce raw aluminum. Big energy savings are also achieved when glass, paper and other scrap metals are reused, too.
Some people still wonder if recycling really matters. It's a choice people have to make for themselves. But one thing's clear: millions across the nation and around the world, including thousands of Plano citizens, are recycling. And recycling is now a major U.S. industry that employees thousands of workers, saves substantial energy, reduces land fill area and conserves essential resources.
So, what about your New Year resolution? Will you Go Green in 2014?
Go here for some recycling facts. Visit the Environmental Protection Agency website to learn more about how you can reduce, reuse and recycle – and why it matters.
Visit the City of Plano residential recycling website to learn more about the program and how you can participate.
You can also learn more about recycling by viewing Plano's online learning module Take Care of the Trash.
Click here to learn more about Plano's commercial recycling and waste reduction programs.
Visit www.livegreeninplano.com to find out more about Plano's sustainability and environmental events, activities and educational offerings.


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"Batman: Arkham Knight" has been official announced Tuesday by Warner Bros., with original series developer Rocksteady returning for what's being billed as the "final installment."
The April cover Game Informer confirmed the game's existence today, but details were leaked earlier by GAME.co.uk. As stated by Game Informer, "Arkham Knight" takes place after 2011's "Arkham City" and described as the final Arkham game that "may just end the Dark Knight's journey." Rocksteady is said to be raising the stakes even higher for "Arkham Knight" by allowing players to drive the Batmobile for the very first time, complementing Batman's gliding and grappling abilities, as he travels across Gotham City.
Both GAME and Game Informer confirm the return of Scarecrow, Penguin, Two-Face, Harley Quinn in the new "Batman" title, however, the product listing makes it sound like Scarecrow is the new mastermind in the latest plot. Unsurprisingly, the game's product listing also suggest there will be a DLC pre-order bonus involving Harley Quinn. "Arkham Knight" is likely the "Batman" game Kevin Conroy was referring to, when he talked last year about reprising his role as the Dark Knight.
Game Informer has the debut trailer for "Batman: Arkham Knight" available to view. The game will only be released this year on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Given news of WB cutting off DLC support for the Wii U version of "Arkham Origins," no "Arkham Knight" for Wii U was expected, but still disappointing for Nintendo fans.


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What is your favorite thing about school and why?
"Math because we get to count things."
What is your favorite subject and why?
"Music because we get to sing."
What was the last book you read?
"Strawberry Shortcake."
What was the last movie you saw?
Where do you want to go to college?
Not sure where, but want to go
Watch Dogs, All-Pro Dads Breakfast and Panther Tots Club are just a few of the parent-driven initiatives in the Carroll County School District, and there is more to come.
Watch Dogs is offered at Kathryn Winn Primary and Cartmell Elem-entary. For Watch Dogs, fathers and father figures volunteer to spend the day in their child's school building. They have a set schedule to follow that takes them through five different classrooms throughout the day, one of which will be their own child's classroom.
It isn't "back to school" as usual this year for 22 Kentucky school districts, including Carroll County. The nation has made a $41 million investment in the districts as a whole, and they are getting ready to prove what they can achieve.
Board takes last year's tax rate
The Carroll County Board of Education voted to accept the compensating rate of 56.5 cents per $100 assessed value, which would generate the same amount of revenue the board received last year. This is because real estate assessments are flat.
Chief Financial Officer Jon Conrad said he believes the board is in a good spot financially. Personal assessments dropped by $80 million, related to the foreign-trade agreement between the county and North American Stainless.
Friday, Aug. 30: No school, Labor Day.
Monday, Sept. 2: No school, Labor Day.
Tuesday, Sept. 3: Fiesta pizza, garden salad, corn, banana, peaches; breakfast: Scrambled eggs with bacon.
Wednesday, Sept. 4: Turkey and cheese with bun, lettuce/tomato/pickle, baked beans, chilled broccoli and carrots, grapes, fruit cocktail; breakfast: Mini maple pancakes.
Ryan Goff, son of Gregory and Michelle Goff of Carrollton, was among 208 students who received a bachelor degree during Hanover College's 180th annual commencement. The ceremony took place Saturday, May 25, at the Point on the college's campus in Hanover, Ind.
Goff, who majored in political science, graduated from Carroll County High School.
Elementary students are practicing leadership habits as part of The Leader in Me, a program based on "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People." The Leader in Me is part of the kidFRIENDLy initiative, which aims to have "Kids Focused, Responsible, Imaginative, Engaged and Determined to Learn."
kidFRIENDLy is part of the Race to the Top grant that Carroll County, along with 21 other school districts in the region, is participating in. One of the key components of kidFRIENDLy is "Students as Leaders."
Chef Damaris Phillips felt a long-held dream come true Sunday night when she was named TV's "Next Food Network Star."
The win for the Jefferson Com-munity and Technical College Culinary Arts faculty member followed a challenging 10-week competition and 59 hours of voting by viewers and supporters.
Winners of the program, receive their own show on the national network. Phillips' show will premier this fall.
The Carroll County School District is expanding its pre-engineering course offerings through the second year of Project Lead the Way, an initiative that gives middle school and high school students access to engineering design and biomedical science courses.
Project Lead the Way provides curriculum and support to school districts so that students have access to hands-on, problem-based learning. Students are encouraged to apply skills and knowledge acquired in math and science classes.
Carroll County Schools is seeing an influx of students this year, which has led to one of the largest kindergarten classes the district has seen.
Kathryn Winn Primary School Principal Gerda Wise said Monday there are 179 enrolled in kindergarten, up from about 150 students last year.
"I believe it is the largest," Wise said, adding that it is bigger than any she has seen in her 29 years with the school district.
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Ubiquinol is the energized, active form of the popular nutrient
CoQ10. As an active antioxidant, Ubiquinol supplies the same benefits of
CoQ10 supplementation, just in a more advanced and powerful form.
Ubiquinol has gained acclaim for its ease of absorption and high
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because CoQ10 is extremely difficult for adults over age 40 to absorb
and utilize. Ubiquinol provides support in the following two important areas.
Ubiquinol is needed for energy production in nearly every cell in the human body.
Ubiquinol is concentrated in organs with high energy demands,
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I finally got my big dot sights mounted, this last week and got out to the range yesterday. I formed the lollipop that is presented on XS's website
http://www.xssights.com/pix/sightimages.gif and also here Shooting Illustrated's Guns and Hunting - NRA
Well after I was done shooting I was consistantly 4-6" below the point of aim. I covered the target with the dot and cradled it. I called XS and they said I was doing everything correctly and I had the correct rear and front sight setup, 0.340 in the back for commander slide sized 1911's(mine is a CCO formate springer, 4" barrel).
Has anyone had any issues with these before? I have only used 3dots but I really like the wedge setup of this sight.


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Wildcat freshman Adriana Zwanck took sole possession of first place in the individual category carding a 69 (-3) in the first round and a 72 (E) in the second. Zwanck recorded a combined seven birdies in the first and second rounds.
Fellow classmates Brittany Pepler and Brooke Schneider are tied for 65th place. Schneider shot a 77 (+5) in round one and 81 (+9) in round two. Pepler carded a 79 (+7) in both rounds.
Junior Rachel Gavin shot a 77 (+5) in the first round and carded an 82 (+10) in the second round. Rounding out the Wildcats squad was freshman Marisa Smith who shot an 82 (+10) and followed that with a 78 (+6). The two Cats sit in 69th place and 71st place, respectively.
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I just wanted to try my hand at a Unified Korea flag using themes from the nations past.
Changing the Yin/Yang symbol kinda takes away its meaning... But it's a pretty nice flag.
It look like if Korea were United
This is really cool design!!
Amazing design
I did one that was pretty similar but awful quality.
I'm a South Korean and it is really impressive.
what's the meaning of all these symbols?
The trigrams (three bar thingers) represent the elements that make up the world -- fire, earth, water, etc. The wheel represents the confluence of natural order that feeds one another. Kinda like the taijitu/yin-yang symbol, except without the dualist emphasis. And while this is not as obvious as other symbols on the flag, the white background represents the calm and innocent nature of the world at rest. So with this flag, you have a harmonious human world turning round and round, recognizing the influence of natural forces that make up the physical world, situated atop the infinite and inviting spiritual world that is full of potentiality and possibility.
I hope I'm not putting words in the creator's mouth, but the symbolism is so strong that I can't envision any other way of reading it (if you are previously aware of Korean symbols).
That's very interesting. Since I know next to nothing of the Korean Language, history or culture, I was just researching all its previous flags. I found one with all 6 trigrams but I oscillated between the gold/black as just a change of pace from making them all one color. I did this mostly to what pleased my eye. If it matched up to others good opinions then that was just a bonus.
Nice work. Simple but stylish.
Cool flag.
I like this one a lot, very fitting too.
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Sam-Taegeuk! Awesome!
you know that could happen
I'd imagine a reunified Korea with something like that. Nice!
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Reading: Mid-Cycle Slowdown, or Collision?
In today's Ahead of the Tape column, Mark Gongloff posits that the best-case scenario for the markets is that this slowdown becomes a brief, "mid-cycle" decline. "If the optimists are right, some markets could get spun around. Treasury bonds, which seem to be positioned for recession, could take a beating. The dollar could rally," he writes. "The stock market has at least priced in a slowdown, but it isn't clear that it has braced for Armageddon yet."
In Bloomberg, Susan Antilla looks back at the advertising campaigns of major Wall Street firms and finds in many cases, the firms produced the opposite of what was promised. "Image is often reality on Wall Street, where astonishing feats of public relations and advertising can transform the unremarkable into genius. The trance of bull markets sets the stage for prodigies to be born," she writes. "Sometimes, though, reality is so stark that even the best spin fails."


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Next week I am heading off to New York City to attend BlogHer '12 thanks to the Dodge Journey to BlogHer contest and my friend Emily from ColoradoMoms who chose me as her +1 for the trip.
I'm overwhelmed. BlogHer is a BIG conference…nearly 4000 attendees. In one hotel. In New York.
There are parties, there are sessions and…its New York City. I'll be taking TONS of pictures.
Some of the pictures I'll be taking will be head shots.
I'm not great at promoting myself….lucky for me, I've got friends who are.
When I was at Type A Parent Conference in June I had the best time taking head shots of my friends. We got together and spent 15 -20 minutes laughing, smiling
telling dirty jokes joking around and laughing some more. The whole time I was taking pictures of their beautiful smiles.
Some of them were nervous, some of them were convinced they were unprepared to have pictures taken at that moment (but my hair! but my make up!)…but the smiles were genuine and I was so happy that the beauty I see in them shined through and best of all….they were able to see it for themselves.
I swear, the feeling I get when someone sees pictures of themselves that I have taken and they are happy…excited even…. it gives me goosebumps and my stomach does little flips. It makes me truly happy.
Looks like fun, doesn't it?
If you are looking for new head shots, whether you are looking for something casual for social media or professional for print media and you are going to be at BlogHer '12 in New York City next week feel free to give me a shout and we can find a way to make our crazy schedules work. (As a side note, my friend Molly has a killer conference planner that you can complete on your computer and print out….and she is giving away a Samsung Focus 2 at the same time…two kinds of free!)
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I have a jboss and apache setup hosting my .war file. I have enabled session stickiness to forward requests from apache to jboss . Assume I have 2 apache and 2 jboss instances.
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Phillip Weaver enters his senior season with the Crimson Tide ... started three career tournaments during the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons ... boasts a 76.33 scoring average over nine competitive rounds ... very competitive and driven to be the best.
He participated in one tournament as an individual for the Crimson Tide .... shot a 248 and finished 86th at the Linger Longer Invitational as an individual.
Weaver competed in two varsity tournaments for the Crimson Tide in the fall of 2008 ... made his collegiate debut at the 2008 Carpet Capital Collegiate, finishing tied for 47th with a 7-over-par 223 ... posted a tie for 35th at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate with a 6-over-par 216 that included his career-low round of 69 in the final round.
He did not compete in 2007-08, his redshirt freshman season, as the Tide boasted a veteran team ... earned Academic All-SEC honors.
Weaver redshirted during his freshman season with the Crimson Tide.
Weaver was a 2008 U.S. Amateur participant ... shot 68-65 in the Memphis qualifier for the 2008 U.S. Amateur to qualify ... 2007 winner of the Dogwood Invitational qualifier, shooting a 66 in round one ... finished sixth (70-75-68/213) at the 2005 AJGA Burgett Moody Classic ... finished fourth of 75 at the 2006 Alabama State Junior (76-67-74/217) ... ... finished fifth of 63 at the AJGA Jerry Pate/Andrews Institute Junior (77-69-70/216) ... 2007 graduate of Tuscaloosa's Northridge High School ... played for David Akins at Northridge ... Northridge finished second in state 5A in 2004, second in 2005 and sixth in 2006 ... finished fourth at 2006 Alabama State Junior Championship in the 16-18 division, shooting 76-67-74/217.
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The past few weekends have been busy ones, filled with house guests, window-box planting, and quite a few writing projects. Sam and I both love our house so much, and having people over always heightens that — sharing the breakfast nook in the mornings and seeing the living room fill up with more than just the two of us. I love an excuse for a mid-afternoon stroll through Fremont, and a reason to fill up on chocolate samples at Theo. Of course, house guests must eat, so there's always Vietnamese food at Green Leaf and later at Tamarind Tree, beautiful salads at Sitka and Spruce, pizzas at Delancey, drinks at Ocho. Then on Monday, after a trip to the airport, there's a comparative quiet and a noticeable lack of Theo chocolate, tofu spring rolls, and Dark and Stormy's. Enter this weekend: just the two of us, garden planning and patio-sitting at our neighborhood bar. The sun was out, the breeze was warm, and sometimes beer just sounds good at 3 p.m. It was on these walks that I realized, yes, spring may have arrived in Seattle.
The first week I moved here I made a few trips to the dump to get rid of cardboard boxes. I went in flip-flops. My second visit the nice man working the booth asked what the hell I was thinking. He had a point: March was damp here. It was not flip-flops at-the-dump weather (although the more I think about it, is it ever flip-flops-at-the-dump-weather?). I learned to layer quickly, ran more inside the gym, and drank a lot of tea. But now, coats aren't draped on the dining room chairs and I've actually been cracking my office window to get some fresh air.
People are out on their bikes, daffodils are growing like weeds, and if you pay attention you can smell barbeque in certain neighborhoods just as the light turns in the evening. It's always this time of year when I start day-dreaming about trips I want to take, books I want to read, warm-weather cocktails, and — of course — ice cream. The ice cream machine is one of those appliances that, when we were unpacking, got pushed to the very back of the cupboards. I'm happy to say this has been remedied, there are two glorious new ice cream cookbooks on the horizon, and I plan on churning away this spring and summer.
First thing's first: it's time to order Bi-Rite Creamery's new cookbook Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones (out April 17, 2012). I've seen it, I've read it, this recipe is from the book, and I think you're going to like it. There is also the soon-to-be-released Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book (April 25, 2012), which I haven't had the pleasure of getting my hands on yet, but I'm sure it is chock full of owner Jake Godby's humor and irreverence. If you haven't eaten ice cream in San Francisco, Bi-Rite is classically wonderful (think glorious strawberry, smooth salted caramel, and honey lavender). Humphry Slocombe is a little wackier (although still wonderful) with more renegade flavors like FlufferNutter, Butter Beer, or Pom Coconut Ale. When it comes to choosing, I'm a Bi-Rite gal through and through. If you're familiar with good East Coast ice creameries like Herrell's: Bi-Rite is the Bay Area's version. It's the kind of ice cream that skirts trends or fads: it's just really, really good — one of the reasons the line often wraps its way around the block, even on chilly evenings.
The Bi-Rite Creamery cookbook is everything you'd expect: concisely written, beautifully photographed, and yes: the salted caramel ice cream recipe is in there along with unexpected inclusions like cookies, brownies and cakes. I decided pretty quickly that the Malted Vanilla Ice Cream needed to happen, and I've been looking for an opportunity to make homemade Magic Shell (you know that crackly chocolate that they use to dip soft-serve cones in? Yes, that). If you're a fan of that crunchy chocolate shell, you're in luck: it's really no more effort than melting your favorite chocolate into hot coconut oil. Then you pour it slowly into the ice cream machine when it's done churning and it hardens on the spot into little crags and shards of dark chocolate. Like beer at 3 p.m. on a sunny Saturday, this kind of thing makes me smile.
If you don't have malted milk powder at home, it's easy to find at the market; I buy Carnation brand and love having it in the pantry — it's wonderful to add to milkshakes or baked goods (try 1/4 cup in your next batch of chocolate-chip cookies). As for this recipe, it's an egg-based, custardy ice cream, so the mixture should be pretty darn thick when you pour it into your machine. It'll tide you over until you get to San Francisco, for sure. Until then, I hope you have daffodils in your neighborhood, occasional warm breezes, more light in the evening, and a generous bowl of ice cream.
Malted Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Crackle
As written, the Bi-Rite gals add peanut brittle and milk chocolate chunks to this ice cream base. That has to be stellar — but there's something to be said about the simple chocolate crackle strewn throughout; certainly add any mix-ins that you think sound delicious. Crushed cookies or toasted almonds would be wonderful. I tweaked the amount of malted milk powder here, too, feeling ultimately that 1/2 cup was a little heavy-handed.
Slightly adapted from: Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones
In a medium heat-proof bowl, whisk the yolks just to break them up, then whisk in the malted milk powder. Set aside.
In a heavy non-reactive pan saucepan, stir together the cream, milk, sugar, and salt and put the pan over medium heat. When the mixture approaches a bare simmer, reduce the heat to low. Carefully scoop out about 1/2 cup of the hot cream mixture and, whisking the eggs constantly, add the cream to the bowl with the egg yolks. Repeat, adding another 1/2 cup of the hot cream to the bowl with the yolks. Using a heatproof rubber spatula, stir the cream in the saucepan as you slowly pour the egg-and-cream mixture from the bowl into the pan.
Cook the mixture carefully over medium heat until it's thickened and coats the back of a spatula. Strain the base through a fine-mesh strainer into a clean container. Set the container in an ice-water bath and stir occasionally to release the heat. Wait until it's cool. Remove the container from the ice-water-bath, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate the base for at least 2 hours- overnight.
Once the base is chilled, remove from the refrigerator and add the vanilla. Give it a quick stir to combine. Free in your ice cream machine according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Meanwhile, make the magic shell, or chocolate crackle: In a small saucepan, heat the coconut oil on medium-low heat until it's just melted and in liquid form. Add the chocolate pieces and stir until they've melted into the oil. Remove from heat. Pour in a small bowl until you're ready to add it to your ice cream base. Once ice cream is finished churning, slowly pour in the chocolate crackle; although it's in viscous liquid form, it will freeze up into little solid bits when it hits the cold ice cream.
* Recipe note: When I first started making chocolate crackle and when I initially posted this recipe, I used much more coconut oil. Since then, I've learned you really only need a few tablespoons and that the chocolate actually firms up on its own really well, too. So since the original post, I've decreased the amount of coconut oil called for in the chocolate crackle.


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Kindergarten registration for 2012-13 is taking place at all elementary schools in VUSD. Starting this year, children registering for kindergarten must be age 5 by Nov. 1 of 2012, a full month earlier than in the past.
Senate Bill 1381, known as the Kindergarten Readiness Act, gradually moves up the age at which students can enroll in kindergarten. For the following school year, 2013-14, children must be 5 by Oct. 1; for 2014-15 (and each year thereafter) they must turn 5 by Sept. 1.
Originally, the Readiness Act also required districts to develop transitional kindergarten programs for children who are too young to attend kindergarten due to the new age requirements each year. That program is on hold at most districts in the state. However, VUSD is making tentative plans to implement it. Please see our related article on the home page or subscribe to receive updates from our E-news service.
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Hollywood producer Robert Evans says he anticipates a pleasurable life with wife No. 7 because she is not connected to show business in any way.
The newlyweds met at the 30th anniversary screening of Evans' Oscar-nominated film "Chinatown" in November.
Evans' previous wives include model Leslie Ann Woodward; "Dynasty" star Catherine Oxenberg; "Love Story's" Ali McGraw; former Miss America Phyllis George; Swedish actress Camilla Sparv; and "Peyton Place's" Sharon Hugueny.
Of his latest spouse, Evans told Time: "She's the only girl I've ever married who's not an actress or an aspiring actress, and you have no idea what a pleasure that is."
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Waves PR: October 13, 2009
The blogosphere is alive with it. The attempts of a firm of solicitors (Carter Ruck) to gag the Guardian are backfiring. The hashtag #trafigura (and those related) is unlikely to disappear from Twitter screens today, and a number of people have more than egg on their faces.
Yesterday, the Guardian reported that it had been prevented from reporting on Parliament.
In normal circumstances, everyday folk don't much care about the questions being tabled in Parliament. We have become apathetic – and apathy is always caused by the feeling that nothing we do will make any difference.
But the Internet, fueled by social media networks, is exposing a huge PR failure on the part of Trafigura's solicitor's, Carter-Ruck, which has sought to prevent the Guardian from printing a story. "The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations."
(Apparently the company used to use a firm of solicitors called Waterson & Hicks.)
It seems that this is the Parliamentary question they have been banned from reporting:
Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect (a) whistleblowers and (b) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by (i) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and (ii) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.
(More on Paul Farrelly here: They Work for You. There's no mention of this on his Parliamentary site.)
Trafigura is a British oil trader which "trades commodities, such as crude oil, refined products, ores, concentrates and refined metals and provides the ships and facilities to store and transport them."
Although Trafigura has claimed that it's done nothing wrong. (Newsnight piece) it dumped toxic waste (caustic soda slops) in an an incident in which over 31 thousand people in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast became entitled to compensation.) That's 31 thousand people whose airpipes were burning and found it hard to breathe. Whose skin bubbled. Or whose eyes stang to the point of madness. Or who died.
(I believe victims each received around £1000, but don't quote me on that one. Trafigura has a turnover of 73 billion dollars and is the world's third largest independent oil trader trading over 1.5 miliion barrels of oil each day, according to its website.)
The Guardian had already reported on the complexities of the case and published documentation. And there was an excellent piece on the BBC's Newsnight. Which, given that Carter-Ruck was already on it's tail, was brave.
Anyway, the cat's out of the bag. We should all have been appalled at the original story. I'll leave further digging and extra reporting on the current freedom of speech scandal to the professional journalists and political bloggers. The surface that I touched on whilst researching revealed that there's plenty there, reaching up to high levels in Government. However, in PR terms (where I do feel qualified to comment) there are several lessons that must be re-learned:
– no amount of PR or charity work can cover over bad practise. The best way to avoid a scandal is to ensure that your CSR (corporate social responsibility) is properly aligned with good corporate governance. Don't let anyone tell you that CSR is about charitable activity. It's about behaving responsibly and ensuring that this is communicated throughout a business. (I suspect Trafigura will regret having this on it's website: For Trafigura, strict risk management is not a restriction but a business opportunity.)
– Accidents do happen. Taking reponsibility, saying sorry, making a clean best breast of things, and making proper amends when they do is more sustainable and trust-building than a cover up. Solicitors may know the law, but a good PR consultant will give you a much better handle on the likely reaction.
– And, as if we needed anything more to hammer a point home, this case clearly demonstrates the power of the Internet/social media networks.
There are no winners in this story. The legal firm, Carter-Ruck, won its fight but lost its battle. Trafigura has had a scandal re-hashed: any customers of theirs MUST now be questioning whether they should maintain their association. Governments on two continents have been further tarnished. And we have all been more concerned by the silencing of the press than by the pain to which people in the Ivory Coast were subjected.
Here's what others have to say on the subject:
The Guardian, on how Lord Strathclyde had severed links with the company after the scandal broke
According to Twitter folk, we may thank firstname.lastname@example.com & firstname.lastname@example.com for their lawyerly craft.
The Spectator: "a disgraceful injunction"
Guido Fawkes at order-order: 'Guardian gagged'
Broadstuff.com: "by trying to bottle up the "official" channels, the outcome will actually be far more damaging to the company. (A bit like the BBC banning the Sex Pistols guaranteed their popularity). "
Chicken Yoghurt: "This is what Trafigura doesn't want you to know. Now you do. If they hadn't gone running to their lawyers, it's very possible you wouldn't."
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Summer music festivals are something that many look forward to all year. This weekend, May 16 - 18, there are several festivals going on in the area. So much music . . . . .and so little time! The pleasantly cool weather we are having will make these festivals hard to resist.
The largest of these events is the annual Wildflower Arts and Music Festival at Gatlyn Park in Richardson. Wildflower is an award winning, three day eclectic arts and music festival. This event will have three main outdoor stages along with a Singer/Songwriter stage. Among the many bands performing this year will be Loverboy, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Cheap Trick, Foghat, Michael Martin Murphy, Jack Ingram, Le Freak, Swan Song, and Def Leggend. You can see the complete schedule here.
This weekend Fork & Cork , the 1st Annual Addison, TX Celebration of Taste, will take place in Addison Circle Park. "Fork & Cork is a two-day, casual yet sophisticated event for people who enjoy food as entertainment." This intimate two day event brings together celebrated chefs, craft breweries, wineries and spirit-makers.
But, also every festive event needs some music, right? Headlining this event will be three time Grammy nominee, Texas' own Pat Green. Green has sold over two million albums. "Wave On Wave", "Feels Like It Should", and "Let Me" are among his top singles. Also scheduled to perform at Fork and Cork are Prophets and Outlaws, Whiskey Folk Ramblers, The O's, Telegraph Canyon, plus more. The complete event schedule can be seen here. Tickets are priced from $35 to $100. All Fork & Cork ticketholders will receive $50 in Addison Gift Cards.
And then there is the Fort Worth Music Fest at the Panther Island Pavillion. This is a venue which I just discovered that sounds like so much fun . . . . you can experience a concert while floating in the water. At this two day festival you can hear music from several different genres - from Pop, Indie Rock, and Alternative Country, to Rhythm and Blues. There will be twenty bands in all, playing on two stages. Friday night's line-up will include Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top and his All Star Band. Also on this night will be Lucinda Williams, Justin Townes Earl, Ray Wylie Hubbard and more. Saturday night Jimmy Eat World, The Airborne Toxic Event, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jackopierce, plus eight more bands will play on the two stages of this music fest. See the schedule here.
Two day passes for the Fort Worth Music Fest are $40, with single day passes priced at $25. VIP passes which include a catered meal and a t-shirt, along with other amenities, are available for $100 for a 2 Day Pass or $75 for a 1 Day Pass. Passes can be purchased here.
Celebrating the city's 160th anniversary, Rockwall will host the Founders Day Festival on Saturday, May 17 at Harry Myers Park. The City of Rockwall invites you to come out to enjoy a good old-fashioned day of family fun. Live music begins at 10:15 a.m. The headliner of this festival is the Charlie Daniels Band, who will take the stage at 7 p.m. Best of all, this event is free.
The 30th Annual Main Street Days, A Craft Brew Experence will take place in Grapevine this weekend, May 16 - 18. This event will have three full days of non-stop live entertainment on multiple stages. Some of the headliners of this festival are Monte Montgomery, Little Texas, Starship featuring Mickey Thomas, and Bo Gerard. See the complete three day schedule here .,,
Lastly, there is another event this weekend which is not really about music, but one of the celebreties scheduled to be at this event is someone with a musical history that I know many metal fans would love to meet. Alice Cooper himslf will be at Dallas Comiccon.
With so many options available this weekend, it is hard to make a decision. What will you do?


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Rooted in the Valley is a gem of a book, containing vivid photographs that document the season of two farmers markets in the beautiful Snoqualmie Valley of Western Washington. Read short essays, quotes, and poetry by the farmers and artisans themselves about why the farmers market is so important to them. A perfect addition to your coffee table or bookshelf, a portion of the proceeds to benefit the Duvall and Carnation Farmers Markets.
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Two of these things take up all of my time while one of these things I severely lack. Such is life. This new journal entry is to discuss why I've been neglecting thankful replies to faves on my doodles from awesome individuals... and why I will be stopping that process entirely.
The former came from mountains of animation and class work that has accumulated over a very SHORT period of time.
The latter decision came from very polite notes telling me to stop spamming them with "thank you"s.
This came as quite a shock... I thought telling people "thank you" was a sign of humility, gratitude and sheer damn joy that people thought your stuff was cool enough to look at a second time! But then again, I do see the downside of so many thank you's polluting your inbox. I suppose... Whatevs. But even though I'm halting "thank you" traffic on other's profiles, I, however, shall continue to thank you all for the pageviews, faves and watches from here on this journal.
You will see a full animation (by which I mean 2-3 minutes) or two from me in the next few months. That, along with character concepts and other neat stuff.
I've gotten notes asking if I do commissions or requests. I will answer that with a resounding ASK AND SEE! I do commissions and I do requests and I'm happy to draw when I can. I'm pretty busy with stuff but I try to make time for others as much as possible! SO. Have questions? Ask!


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2011-12: Game-by-Game Stats ... saw action in 31 games ... scored 1.5 points with 1.1 rebounds a game ... went 3-for-4 from behind the arc for nine points and passed out two assists against Old Dominion ... hit a pair of 3-pointers for six points with five rebounds against UC Davis ... passed out four assists at Fresno State ... scored five points against Princeton ... scored seven points and went 3-for-5 from the field at UCLA ... grabbed three rebounds against Oregon ... hit a 3-pointer and passed out two assists against Washington State ... passed out two assists with a rebound against Washington ... grabbed three rebounds with two assists and two steals at Arizona ... went 3-for-4, including 2-for-3 from behind the arc, for eight points at Oregon State ... hit a three-pointer and made a steal at Oregon ... grabbed three rebounds against Seattle University.
2010-11: Game-by-Game Stats Appeared in 28 games, averaging 2.2 points and 1.0 rebounds per game ... went 12-for-36 (.333) from behind the arc in her rookie campaign ... hit first collegiate three-pointer and played 13 minutes against South Carolina ... scored five points in four minutes of action against Texas ... scored five points and hit a 3-pointer in 19 minutes against Fresno State ... posted season highs in minutes (24), field goals (five), 3-pointers (four), points (14) and rebounds (8) at San Francisco ... hit a 3-pointer, scored five points at California ... went 2-for-3 from the field, scoring seven points against Arizona ... scored four points against Arizona State ... passed out two assists at Oregon ... sank a 3-pointer against Oregon State ... scored five points with four rebounds in win over Oregon.
High School: A 2010 graduate of Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills, Calif. ... three-year captain of the basketball team ... lettered four years in basketball and twice in soccer ... led team to CIF Division I state title in 2010 ... team also won CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I title in 2010 and Division II title in 2009 while turning in runner-up finishes in 2007 and '08 ... led ORHS to NorCal Division II semifinals as a freshman and sophomore and to finals as a junior ... team won Sierra Valley Conference title all four years ... as a senior, named to All-America teams of WBCA, Parade and MaxPreps ... named to all-state teams of MaxPreps and Cal-Hi Sports ... named NorCal Preps Division I Player of the Year in 2010 ... in 2009 was named NorCal Preps Division II Player of the Year and Sacramento Bee All-Metro Player of the Year ... also earned spots on Cal-Hi Sports All-State Second Team and ESPN Rise Junior Class All-State First Team ... two-time Sierra Valley Conference MVP (2009-10) ... named to Cal-Hi Sports Sophomore All-State Team in 2008 as well as to Sacramento Bee All-Metro Second Team and All-Sierra Valley Team ... as a freshman was named Sacramento Bee All-Metro honorable mention and to All-Sierra Valley Team ... holds ORHS career, season and game records for points scored, three-pointers made and rebounds in addition to career mark for steals ... played club ball for Just Believe Sports (JBS) from 2006-09 ... helped lead team to Oregon EOT Final Four and Mike T. White championship in 2009 ... was named to 2008 Oregon EOT All-Tournament Team and EOT MVP in 2009 ... in soccer was a Sierra Valley MVP in 2006 and twice named to the all-league team (2006-07).
Personal: Born in Sacramento, Calif. ... parents are Mike and Kelly James ... has two older brothers, Kevin and Ryan ... Ryan currently serves as a team manager of the UCLA women's basketball team ... an uncle, Mike Myers, played football at Penn State ... enjoys bike-riding wakeboarding and swimming.
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From left: Untitled (chair) by Judith Scott on display in the second installment of "Create"; and Collaborative Saori weaving project by participants from Seven Hills Foundation in Worcester.
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross will exhibit weavings produced by individuals participating in the Saori Weaving Project at Seven Hills Foundation day programs (in Worcester, Mass.) in the Cantor Resource Gallery, located adjacent to the main gallery space beginning on Monday, Oct. 29. The display will run in conjunction with the second installation of the "Create" exhibit, which showcases artwork produced over the last 20 years at the leading centers for artists with disabilities in the U.S., on view from Monday, Oct. 22 – Dec. 8. An opening reception for both exhibits will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1, from 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Roger Hankins, director of the Cantor Art Gallery, is pleased to be able to provide an opportunity for local artsits supported by Seven Hills to share their work with the Holy Cross and Worcester communities. "The goal with the Create exhibition and Seven Hills collaboration is to open a dialogue about the potential of every individual, regardless of their ability, to be creatively engaged and to produce work that is worthy of recognition at the highest levels."
"Create" presents 20 artists, whose work in a variety of mediums and styles, celebrates artistic achievement that has flourished in three pioneering art centers in the San Francisco Bay Area: Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, San Francisco's Creativity Explored, and the National Institute for Art and Disability (NIAD) Art Center in Richmond.
Seven Hills Foundation, which promotes and encourages the empowerment of people with significant challenges, began the Saori Weaving Project several years ago in its Worcester location. Participants took classes with Mihoko Wakabayashi, an artist and proprietor of Saori Worcester, and in 2007 the organization became a Saori Pioneer Coaching Site. Seven Hills purchased their first two unique, accessible and adaptable looms, and three staff members completed the full Saori beginners course to become Saori Coaches.
Seven Hills day program weavers contributed three from a total of 66 banners created for the Saori Bridges of Elm Park project in 2010, sales of which supported scholarships for youth in the neighborhoods surrounding the Saori studio located off Pleasant Street in Worcester.
In the fall of 2011, Seven Hills Family Services (SHFS) Inc. received a grant from the Worcester Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, to expand the Saori weaving opportunities to adults with significant disabilities who are enrolled in the Adult Day Health and Day Habilitation Programs located in Worcester and Devens, Mass.
According to Maribeth Fisher, assistant vice president of Seven Hills Family Services, "the grant resulted in the training of five additional staff coaches to work with individuals in creating beautiful weavings, some of which have been fashioned into functional, wearable or sculptural art."
Funds from the Worcester Cultural Council also assisted in covering the cost of thread, yarn, bobbins, and the purchase of additional inside sets, in order for individuals to work on independent projects over time.
"The collaboration with the Cantor Art Gallery and the 'Create' exhibit was the culmination of many hours of weaving, sewing, planning, serendipity, creativity and community, reflected by the show's title 'Community Threads: Seven Hills Saori Weaving Project,'" says Fisher.
Wakabayashi, artist and proprietor of Saori Worcester, teaches Saori to students of all ages and abilities. She has participated in numerous local events inlcuding the Worcester Center for Crafts shows, stART on the Street, Massachusetts Special Olympics, Worcester's Asian Festival, First Night Worcester, and First Night Boston. Her work has been on display in many venues, inlcuding the Arts Worcester Gallery and the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham.
Opening, second installment of 'Create,' Monday, Oct. 22, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Opening, 'Community Threads: Seven Hills Saori Weaving Project,' Monday, Oct. 29, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Opening Reception for both exhibitions, Thursday, Nov. 1, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Gallery Information
Founded in 1983 through the generosity of Iris & B. Gerald Cantor, the Cantor Art Gallery serves both as a venue for a changing series of historical and contemporary public exhibitions, as well as a vital resource for Holy Cross faculty and students, linking exhibitions to the broader liberal arts curriculum.
The hours for the Cantor Art Gallery are Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays 2 – 5 p.m. Located in O'Kane Hall, 1st Floor, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, Mass., 01610. Visitors needing assistance with handicap accessibility should call Public Safety at 508-793-2011. Admission to the gallery is free.
For additional information please call 508-793-3356 or visit the Gallery's website.
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A representative from the executive board of the MIDI Manufacturers Association got in touch this week to let us know that they'd like input from Synthtopia readers about the future of MIDI:
"… The MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) has worked diligently over the decades to help MIDI standards adapt and grow as technology has evolved and new platforms have become available.
"Now MIDI as an industry standard and the MMA as an organization are at an important crossroad. We'd like to do more to promote the value of MIDI to retailers, educators, students and end-users. We'd like to reach the billions of people on the planet who have MIDI-enabled smart phones, computers and tablets, and encourage them to become active music makers. And we'd like to do more to promote the many enhancements and extensions to MIDI that we have created, including developing a realistic and robust business plan for our future-facing 'HD protocol' specification which is nearing completion."


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I understand you can set the site collection's search scope settings at "Site Collection Administration>Search Settings". Is there a way, in SharePoint 2010 Foundation, we can set the scope solely for my site, rather than the entire collection?
This solution only works if it is a quality of life issue only
For this I ended up using the path advanced search filter. I just set it in the template as append to query.
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There is a ton of recent media about buyers paying all cash for houses. This is nothing new. Buyers have been paying all cash for houses for a long time. This is true lots of buyers are paying all cash right now.
This is a big media issue now because financed buyers are complaining about how they are being squeezed out the market by cash buyers. This is untrue lots of financed offers are being accepted over cash.
Financed buyers are not getting their offers accepted by sellers because their offers are not acceptable. This is their own fault.
We all love to blame people when we don't get what we want. "It's the agent's fault." "It's the cash buyer's fault." "It's everybody's fault but ours because we don't want to listen to our agent's advice."
It's not the buyer's real estate agent's fault they are looking for houses that are too expensive or top out their loan limit. That's their fault for not being realistic or taking bad advice.
It is the buyer's fault for not being 100% clear that they are going to be unable to compete against cash buyers and other financed buyers until they follow advice, get realistic about what they can afford, and write solid offers.
I'm just keeping it real from someone who lists a lot of houses and represents a lot of buyers.
Here is how the offer presentation to the sellers works:
All offers must be presented. These days we are seeing multiple offers and that means a stack. We go through the offers with our sellers and cull out the ones that are unrealistic, unacceptable, or sloppy.
After the initial cull is gone from the pile, the typical discussion between my sellers and me when looking over offers to consider runs something like this:
"Here are three acceptable (meaning at or over asking price) financed offers, a cash offer for $10,000.00 less than you are asking and another cash offer for asking price."
"Which one makes me the most money with the least amount of hassle?"
"The highest priced financed offer will bring you back the most money and it will close because the agent writing it is realistic and the offer is clean."
"Let's go with that one then."
Easy, see how the over asking financed offer worked in that situation and beat out the asking price cash offer?
Here is how to write a financed offer that will get accepted:
1. Write a clean offer.
This means do not nickel and dime the seller by asking them to pay for anything that is not customary.
2. If asking for closing costs, increase your offer by the amount you are asking for.
This means the seller will be able to give a credit to cover closing costs without seeing their bottom line effected.
3. Provide a proof of funds.
Show the seller you can afford the down payment and closing costs.
4. Use a reputable lender.
A major bank or direct lender is always preferred to a mortgage broker or internet broker.
5. Write a cover letter or "love letter" to the seller.
Sellers like to know the house they loved and called home is going to go to people that are committed and really enthusiastic about living there.
Bonus points go to buyers that have met the listing agent at an open house. Introduce yourself to the listing agent at the open house. People like to work with people they know and have some connection with.
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Feb. 14, 2014
AUBURN, Ala. -
The No. 5 ranked Alabama gymnastics team pulled out a close win over No. 12 Auburn Friday night in Auburn Arena with a score of 197.500-197.100 in front of 7,123 fans, the second largest gymnastics crowd in Auburn Arena. Sarah Patterson's squad tied its season-best total set a week ago against Georgia.
The two teams were within .025 of each other through each of the first two rotations before the Crimson Tide started to pull away through the second half of the meet, and earning its 108th consecutive win over the Tigers.
"This was a great environment for college gymnastics and we were thrilled to be a part of it and to have this great crowd in part because we're here," Patterson said. "We've got two great teams in the state of Alabama. I'm so proud of how our ladies responded - they handled the pressure on every event. We had people step up and do great things throughout the night."
Senior Sarah DeMeo led the Crimson Tide with a career-best 39.500 to win the all-around. Alabama also swept the individual titles, posting the highest score of the season on all four apparatus.
"Mentally Sarah DeMeo gets tougher every week," Patterson said.
As a team, the Tide tied its season-best score on vault and posted its season best on the balance beam as well as its second highest floor exercise total of the season.
Alabama closed out the meet with a huge balance beam rotation, posting a 49.325 behind career-best scores from freshmen Katie Bailey (9.9) and Aja Sims (9.925).
"Our balance beam performance in this kind of environment, knowing we had to hit to win the meet, I think that it said a lot about our team," Patterson said. "When we went over to the balance beam, I told the ladies, `I want you to compete with confidence and not hold back,' and that's exactly what they did."
The Tide started things off with a 49.250 on the uneven bars, led by freshman Amanda Jetter's 9.900. DeMeo led the Tide off on the vault with a huge 9.9 while sophomore Lauren Beers led the meet with a 9.925, pacing Alabama to a 49.425, matching the team's season high. Senior Kim Jacob posted her second 9.95 in a row on the floor exercise to lead the Tide to a 49.500 team score.
Alabama remains on the road for its next meet, traveling to Oklahoma City where it will face Oklahoma, Michigan and West Virginia in the Perfect 10 Challenge on Feb. 21. Alabama then returns home on Feb. 28 against No. 1 Florida for the first of three home meets in a row. Tickets for the Tide's home meets and the SEC and NCAA Championships are on sale through the Alabama Ticket Office (205.348.2262) located in the lobby of Coleman Coliseum, and online at RollTide.com.
Fans can keep up with the Tide via Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube by following BamaGymnastics.


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