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Terry Laughlin's newest article talks about how some people zone out during activity in order to avoid thinking about pain, distance or whatever. He remarks that he once swam 9 miles with Louie, Louie stuck in his head. Whoa! I guess that's better than Oops, I Did it Again...
In high school and college, I used to play the James Bond theme in my head during fast 50s and 100s, especially in races. If you take the remixed version from Tomorrow Never Dies, it really ups your tempo. Looking back, though, I was probably doing a lot more thrashing that efficient freestyle strokes...
So what do you think about when swimming?
(And be sure to check out the article Zone In, not Out, to Overcome Your Limits for Terry's focal points to think about during the freestyle.)
I'm usually watching the swimmers in nearby lanes and quickly assessing whether they are faster, slower, or about the same. I also think a lot about recent movies that I've watched.
Like a mantra, every stroke, my lap count...or else I loose count.
32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, etc. (flip turn), 33, 33, 33, 33, 33, 33, 33, etc. (flip turn), 34, 34, 34, Oooo that babe in lane 5 is HOT, 34, 34, 34, Wait! Isn't this lap 35?
In open water I´m thinking in the technique and also waching the people that is in front of me.
At the swimming pool, counting if I go on the front, if someone else is on the front I´m trying to not touch his feets and thinking in my kick.
But running just telling me ¨make the difference¨
I listen to my swimp3. Each song lends itself to a different focus. Sometimes it's lengthening my body in the water. Sometimes it's keeping my hips rolling in a rhythym. By the end of a ocean swim or when swimming against a current the song just keeps me from thinking of the difficulty.
I just remember two things. When I was swimming long distances in high school workouts, I would work on my Algebra and Trigonometry homework in my head. When I was swimming distances under 500 yards, I remember singing "Born To Be Wild" to myself, over and over. LOL. I guess that shows you how old I am.
Well, J, IDEALLY you'd be thinking about swimming. If you are a competitive swimmer, practice is the place for thinking, that way when it comes to race day your body just runs on autopilot. I tell my kids that they need to be students of the sport in order to be successful, constantly aware of their bodies and their movements. Its funny though, when I'm on deck looking down at them I can definately tell which ones are aware and which ones are singing Britney...
On recreational swims, its definately disney songs that play in my head, especially Little Mermaid!
I used to repeat my lap count as well until I bought the finger lap counter combo. Now I think about future competitions and when I am going to clear the fog from my goggles.
I only recently learned to count down laps rather than up. My lanemate says it motivates her as the number diminishes. It also mitigates the Dumb Jock Syndrome, the increasing difficulty of basic cognitive tasks as the blood flow is shunted away from non-essential systems (e.g. digestive system) to more demanding ones (muscles).
I used to do the Sesame street song for each number: "1, 2, 3, 4, ... 5! 5! 5! 5! Let's sing a song of 5! How many is 5?" (state 5 things 4 times, eg "5 ossified Republicans, 5 amorous Rottweilers") and then "5 (insert flavor here eg Kahlua Boston cream) pies!"
Splashing and clawing my way through the waves here in beautiful San Diego, what do I think about to distract my mind from the tragic shark attacks and how my choppy strokes may be sounding the lunch bell for our finned friends? I think about my beautiful fiance and how she wants to purchase the bridesmaid's dresses and groomsmen's tuxes, and I ask myself why? I mean don't get me wrong it is a nice gesture, but I was hoping to have some nice gifts or possibly a hotel overnight before the big day. Am I wrong to be so frugal on her wedding day? I should just stop fussing and sing a good tune while I scan for smiling sharks. Anything to distract me from the possibility of being attacked. " Well the Shark has, big white teeth -ya, and he keeps them pearly white...."
This is an interesting question. When I was training for running a marathon, I read somewhere not to listen to music because if you're training for an endurance event you have to prepare the mind and listening to music will only last so long. So, if you are needing to train for something that is going to last 4 hours + what's the best way to train your mind? Right now I've been swimming in a pool, and I count my laps in sets of 10. Last Sunday I did a long swim of 200 laps, so 20 sets just focusing on the next 10 instead of getting wrapped up in the fact that I was only on set 4 or something. I am training for an open water swim, and I think I have to do something different to count my laps. Because, at the moment I'm training my brain to focus on counting. When I'm in open water there will be no counting, so it's counter productive to preparing my mind for open water swimming. I do think about my form a lot, and trying to improve it. It's interesting to read what other people have responded to this question. It seems that most people have some kind of focal point they come back to, a stay in the moment thing. I think endurance sports are in some ways an act in mind control than the physical piece, I like to think of them as a "meditation of the will." There are people who swim in the pool with me frequently that are much better swimmers, stronger, better form yet they couldn't swim 200 laps. What I've been working on is the mind control piece and that gives me an endurance advantage.
Good quesition, and I've found the responses interesting. I've found it difficult to stay mentally in a swim, especially lately. It irritates me when I do swim and lose my lap count, but on the flip (turn) side of it, it's truly mind-numbing for me to count lap after lap. Much like some of these other people, I do let my gaze wander to other lanes, but not for long as I have also run myself into the lane rope. Ouch. I have had a diifficult time slipping into autopilot on longer swims like I can with my run or my ride. To combat this, I've begun swimming one lap to the right of the line, one lap on the line and one lap to the left of the line. This way I don't have to count and I can let my mind wander to whatever it goes to and the lap counting goes by itself. Sometimes it wanders to my next meal, or my last meal. . . sometimes it's about my form. . . sometimes it's about my work.
I would like to bump this product that I mentioned earlier in this thread. It has done wonders for lap counts and it is very easy to use.
When I was in college I had to take a fluid dynamics class and I had absolutely no clue about what the professor was saying until I got to swim practice. Fluid flow around an object would always confuse me until I was swimming and realized that I was the object and I could observe the flow around me! I would be swimming and realize that the "turbulent eddies" created while swimming out of streamline made me slower. I would play around with swimming with my fingers open, my hands closed, my head down and especially my position streamlining off the wall. It managed to help me get a B in the class and decrease my 1650 time, plus it got my mind off the 3x1650 sets.
3x1650 sets!?! Whoa, I'd have to go deep into my happy place to get through that.
But you make a good point about trying to discover your body's fluidity. Now that I'm out of college and don't swim every day, I almost always feel a little out of whack when I do get in the water. It definitely helps to use the warm-up to focus on how the water is flowing over my body...and why I feel like I'm moving so slow.
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Lady Tigers upset by FGC
Published: Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 12:02 a.m.
Sarah Hansen scored a game-high 30 points and converted four free throws in the final 38 seconds as Florida Gulf Coast upset the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team, 76-70, in front of 2,239 fans in Alico Arena on Friday night.
Hansen was a perfect 14-of-14 from the free throw line for the Eagles (7-5), who finished 23-of-24 as a team from the line. Getting to the free-throw line and a 7-of-30 effort from three-point land proved to be the recipe for the upset against LSU, which dropped to 8-4 overall and lost to an Atlantic Sun Conference team for the first time.
Four Lady Tigers finished with double-digit scoring. Former Vandebilt Catholic star Theresa Plaisance had a team-high 19 points before fouling out with 8:26 left in the game. Danielle Ballard and Bianca Lutley had 18 points apiece, while Adrienne Webb contributed 13 points. Jeanne Kenney pulled down seven rebounds.
"We struggled to matchup with them on the defensive and we didn't execute our game plan," LSU coach Nikki Caldwell said. "We knew they were a great offensive team that likes to shoot threes or make layups. We didn't do a very good job and we let them get into isolation situations. Offensive rebounds were energy givers for them."
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It's do-over night on "American Idol" as our four finalists go at it for a second straight time.
You'll recall that, based on votes that carry over from last week, Angie Miller and Kree Harrison come in with a lead (We don't know how much of one) over Candice Glover and Amber Holcolmb.
But based on tonight's efforts, Candice may have closed and/or completely wiped out that gap. She delivered two jaw-dropping performances that arguably ranked No. 1 and 2 for the evening. That's how dominant she was.
Tonight's "Now and Then" theme had the singers performing one current hit (something rarely seen on "Idol") and one time-tested classic. Helping them along the way was Harry Connick Jr., who is more detail oriented and hands-on than your typical guest mentor.
Here's how it all went down:
Round 1: Current hits
-- Angie Miller: Rihanna's "Diamonds": Harry is a little worried about Angie's choice, but likes how she's turned it into a "lullaby." She's back at the piano, which, as we've learned, is usually a good sign. But Keith Urban misses the "percussive, muscular weight" (Huh?) of the original. Nicki (who looks like the Queen of the Nile tonight) thinks it was a little "lackluster" and "bland." Randy Jackson agrees with Keith and then says he likes Angie's black leather shorts (Ew). Mariah goes on and on about something that makes Nicki interject and say that Mariah agreed with her. But, no, Mariah disputes that. We're off to a very weird start.
-- Amber Holcomb (Pink's "Just Give Me A Reason"): This is a great song, but I'm not hearing the pain and angst that Pink packs into it. There's a bit of disconnect. Nicki detects it, too. "Sometimes you were in, sometimes you were out," she says. Randy senses that Amber wasn't having a lot of fun with it ("That was not stellar.") Mariah agrees: "We need to see that confident Amber that we've been singing." Keith admits it was a tough song to do, but did enjoy "the clarity and bell" in Amber's voice.
-- Candice Glover (Bruno Mars' "When I Was Your Man"): Interesting. Candice doesn't bother to change the gender from Bruno's mournful hit. Instead, she's content with being a "storyteller," presenting it from the guy's point of view. Candice can sign anything, of course, and she sounds lovely here, bringing her usual doses of emotion and power. Bravo. Randy: "That's how you sing a song. I don't care about the gender. Congratulations. That was amazing!" Mariah agrees. "Candice has the musicality to change it up to suit her," she says. Keith: "That's a winning performance, baby." Nicki prompts the panel to give Candice a belated standing ovation. (And compliments the singer's looks).
-- Kree Harrison: Carrie Underwood's "See You Again": Kree says she has done some soul-searching after a couple weeks of solid, if unspectacular showings. She knows she needs to do a better job of "connecting" with the song and the audience. Harry really likes Kree -- and the arrangement. On stage, she delivers a clear, rich and unadorned vocal that goes down smoothly. Mariah thinks she made the connection she was going for. ("I felt you."). But Keith isn't quite sold. "It's a power ballad," he says. "There's a conflict between what I'm seeing and what I'm hearing." Nicki, though, loved it. ("I felt you believed what you're singing."). Randy calls it a "great vocal."
Round 2: Timeless standards
-- Angie Miller: "Someone to Watch Over Me": Angie dedicates this one to her mom, who used to sing it around the house. No piano this time, but lots of violins. It's lovely, but is it memorable? Keith calls it "beautiful." Nicki compares Angie to a "Disney princess" (Is that a compliment?) and says she can see her on Broadway. Randy didn't love the arrangement in the middle, but calls it an "amazing vocal." Mariah says she loved the song choice and then gets into another brief verbal scuffle with Nicki over an earlier comment. (Ryan Seacrest threatens to put them in a corner).
-- Amber Holcomb: "My Funny Valentine": Amber has done this song before, so she should know her way around it. The judges give her a standing "O." Nicki calls it "beautiful" and compliments her poise and Amber begins to break down. She's obviously feeling the pressure and the strain this late in the season. Randy thinks Amber made a believer out of a lot of people tonight ("You slew it"). Mariah raves about Amber's "spirit," and Keith calls the performance "stellar."
-- Candice Glover: "You've Changed": Wow. What more needs to be said? Just a gorgeous performance brimming with drama, emotion, and power. Randy calls it "stellar." Mariah: "There is no critiquing. ... I'm going to download that ASAP." Keith raves about Candice's power and control. Nicki says she has nothing to add. It was that good.
-- Kree Harrison: "Stormy Weather": Harry wants Kree to strip all the extra varnish off the song and she does so for the most part. But is it too sleepy? Too forgettable. And is Harry wrong? Mariah wonders if it might have been better for Kree to go more bluesy and less "loungey." Keith would have chosen a different song and tells Kree not to overthink things. Nicki: "I wish you had paid more attention to song choice. It means so much. Whether you put someone to sleep or give a memorable performance." Randy says she needs to stick to who she is. This all leads to a musical debate between Harry and Randy while poor Kree just stands there wondering what the hell is going on.


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5 weeks ago, I started experiencing burning pain in the insertion to the 5th metatarsal midway through my long run (I was at 10 miles at that point). I ran twice more before I realized this was a serious problem that needed rest. It is clearly my peroneal tendons. I've been resting for 4 full weeks, except for a lot of swimming and weights, some yoga, bike and elliptical and day-to-day activiites. X-rays clear for fracture. Alieve twice a day, massage for tight peroneous muscles, stretching and rolling, tennis ball cross friction, icing, etc. I've had three ART treatments and 4 visits to my regular chiro to work on what is likely a hip issue. I limped the first two weeks, stopped limping and was walking normally aside from occasional clicking, did a 10 minute walk/2:30 minute test run and the pain came back. It is still now today better than it was the first week. There was no pop, never any swelling or discoloration. I don't think it is subluxing, based on my own physical examination and comparison during motion to the other foot. I think it is a case of a tiny, tiny bit of TMTS coupled with all of my long runs being on incredibly snowy roads with YakTrax with supination and a leg that turns out more than the other. I have a MRI tomorrow to hopefully rule out a tear or subluxation and an appointment with an ortho later this week. I imagine that after 5 weeks of this, immobilization will be recommended, as well as PT. Is there anything I'm not doing or not thinking of? Thank you.
I don't have any major thoughts to offer - however a couple of things popped in my mind as I read your story:
* If you have a hip issue going on (I'm assuming it's the same side as the foot issue) I would pursue that thoroughly. Many lower extremety issues are rooted in the hips. I had chronic heel pain and did all sorts of things - with the guidance of doctors and PTs. I found a PT, though, that found a speicific hip issue and when that got addressed the heel pain went away.
* I doubt you're that close to immobilization. Immobilization is not a desirable thing to do. I would only do so if there is a clear line-of-sight as to what the issue is and an understanding of why immobilization is the right course of action. My docs and PTs (who I love) are very clear that "active rest" is the desirable healing mode. Depending on the situation you want to enable whatever level of movement doesn't aggravate the condition. Complete immobilization introduces a variety of other issues that then must be dealt with.
"Kick off your high heel sneakers, it's party time."
-- From the song FM by Steely Dan
Thank you! My chiro tells me that the problem leg turns out more than the other from the hip. I have also had IT band issues in this leg, but rolling and stretching alleviated it and it has been gone since the fall. She has not suggested any hip exercises, however - I need to ask about that.
Second, thanks for your comments on immobilization. My concern is that after 4 full weeks of non-running rest, something is still aggravating it. Walking is the only thing that can be. And I have to walk, obviously. I have a 2 year old.
Perhaps what I am missing most is patience.
I should clarify - my long runs were at 10 miles at that point in time, not midway through the run. So it was about 4-5 miles into a 10 mile run.
In my experience peoneal muscle tendon problems are frequently related to habitual sitting postures. Often we sit with the foot tucked underneath the chair resting in a maximum supinated posture laying the base of the 5th metatatarsal directly on the ground, sometimes with the opposite foot resting on top of the injured foot. Ladies with short legs will often tuck one foot under the opposite thigh, again with the foot in a maximum supinated position and the base of the 5th metatarsal is compressed into the chair. This is sub-concious habitual asymmetrical sitting patterns. The peroneal muscles are chronically stretched resulting in "stretch weakness". A smart Physical Therapist should be able to clinically determine if there is a length associated muscle weakness of the peroneal muscles and design a remedial strengthening exercises to strengthen the muscles at thier shortest length.
Bilateral pain at the base of the 5th metatarsal is often related to wearing shoes that are too narrow. Ladies running shoes common in B width, and mends come in D width. Ask to have you foot measured to see if you are in correct size shoes. Make sure you measure both feet do not assume the feet are symmetrical size.
Damien Howell PT, DPT, OCS
The fact that your foot was turned to the outside changes everything about the differential diagnosis due to frequency of occurrence. The usual rules may no longer apply, so forget about what it looks like, feels like, or the vast majority of internet hits. Most of those problems and solutions will apply to runners with a normal stride, and you are faced with a highly unique set of possibilities, primarily because your foot is forced to roll differently on contact with the ground, causing potential problems, for example, with interosseous friction and resulting neuropathy. The "occasional clicking" you noted is an important clue to this.
You asked about what you may have overlooked, and because of reasons stated above, what might be missed by your healthcare providers. One thing you may be missing is often hard to diagnose, is regularly misdiagnosed, yet amazingly common. The pain is frequently described as a burning sensation (usually "unilateral," in only one foot), often occurs (at onset in runners) many miles into a run, and with greater regularity thereafter when training continues. It is sometimes accompanied by clicking ("Mulder's Click"). It can mysteriously disappear after prolonged rest, remaining dormant until repetitive motion, such as long runs during marathon competition or training, bring the pain back with a vengeance.
In my case, the burning first occurred several miles into a long training run. I eased up and cut the run short, because it felt like a fracture or some other serious problem. It went away and returned during marathon competition, repeating in subsequent years in the latter phases of training, or during the marathon itself. For me, it felt like a hot nail being driven down into my foot. What I'm talking about is usually referred to as a Morton's Neuroma. In my case, it was between the 2nd and 3rd metatarsals, but has been found to occur less frequently between 3rd and 4th, and rarely, between 1st and 2nd, or 4th and 5th, as is possible in your case. A turned-out foot could precipitate one of the rare manifestations of MN, which is thought to be caused by compression of nerves between the metatarsals when the foot rolls in repetitive motion.
I am suspicious because it was not mentioned as being excluded during your otherwise detailed and fairly complete discussion.
Location of pain near insertion of the Peroneal tendons could be coincidental in this case. The main (Longus) Peroneal (sometimes called Fibularis) tendon actually inserts in several places, beginning on the lateral aspect of the foot and continuing underneath to the 1st metatarsal. It's action is not only to plantarflex, but to evert the foot - an action that would be more necessary when the foot is turned out - in order to augment the propulsive phase of your stride. While this action involves the Peroneal muscle and tendon as you suspect, it forces the abnormal movement between bones of the foot that can lead to further pathology, such as Neuroma, in that vicinity. Once again, a rare symptom, logically speaking, is more likely to come from an equally rare set of circumstances.
Damien noted that certain sitting postures can lead not only to pressure on the area noted, and a form of false metatarsalgia, but to failure of stretched Peroneals to perform. Sitting can also affect the tone of important core muscles governing your hip. A casual search of terms like "sitting is the new smoking" can show the growing awareness of potential problems related to sitting, that professionals like Damien have helped to pioneer. I am attempting to complement these observations with another point of view more anatomical than procedural in origin.
Though it is true that your hip is involved with the action of turning the foot outward, your foot is involved with the proprioceptive feedback that causes your central nervous system to orchestrate the rotation of the hip. In other words, chasing one symptom related to another may seem logical enough, until another cause for the secondary symptom is revealed. You could have a pain in your foot, related to the action of your hip, that is in turn caused by the structure of your foot. It would not be logical to assume that the foot is turned out for no reason at all, or that it simply needs to be retrained to point forward. It would be logical to surmise that your body is attempting to achieve stability due to a unilateral anatomical problem, not merely due to lack of sufficient training, when it is obvious you have been going out of your way to train, even in adverse conditions.
I have a unilateral MN that I have been able to control with modifications to my footwear to reduce excess motion. In my case it was due to a short 1st metatarsal (not toe, but metatarsal only), but your case could involve a combination of an abnormal arch and hypermobile 1st metatarsal, or various other combinations, even single factors, that are often considered "normal" by themselves in the sedentary population most practitioners treat, yet pose significant stability problems in a dedicated runner or other endurance athlete. Such stability issues would likely lead to the gradual rotation of the hip as a maladaptation in your stride.
It's one thing to chase a pathology, another to look for an immediate cause, and yet another to find the ultimate cause. It's not always simple, and can't be expected of the average practitioner. However, it is encouraging that at least, the position of your hip has been noted and implicated, and that your personal search has been relatively exhaustive. By no means can anyone diagnose over the internet based on a casual history, but such conversations can be useful in your search for clues to a thus far perplexing problem, and help to leave no stone unturned.
Thank you, James. That was a lot of information to digest and very wise words about the hip issue.
By way of an update, the peroneal pain went away but the clicking remained.
MRI showed a calcaneal stress fracture in the anterior aspect.
I've been NWB (airboot AND crutches) since March 20, 2014 with orders for zero biking, elliptical or swimming. After the first 2 weeks at 95% compliance, I'm now at about 75% compliant. No pain on weight bearing, just achiness after a day where I've walked at all on it.
Re-check for healing on 4/22. I am curious as to whether tendonitis can cause stress fractures? I was not really significantly overtraining.
Oh, and I would add that my peroneal tendons were unremarkable at MRI. Very strange. You would think they would have shown signs of inflammation, given the weeks of pain I had in that spot. This suggests maybe this was not tendonitis but something more akin to what James is discussing.
And one more comment - I'm going to bring James' comments to my ART practictioner and my ortho, as well as PT once I am ready. I really appreciate the throrough response.
Good luck with that. You've definitely got some complicating factors. There are other possibilities such as unusual tarsal bones not fitting together properly, etc. Sorry it took so long for me to respond, but my original post got wiped out when my battery died, and it took a couple weeks to find time to rewrite. The new chromebooks have some advantages, but 100% fault-tolerance is not one of them lol. Once again, best of luck in your healing, and thank you for the kind words.
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Love that dog.
Take all the time you need to find happiness. love xx
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I got one of those. Well, he has a mushy face like that. Anyway, he's recovering from surgery right now. We send you our love and wish you a speedy recovery too. Take care man.
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Hi Dev.Team....
first of all thanks for this great software with which i can use all my media library created for my AppleTV and now use with any conversion action on my PS3.
Also thanks for extension to iPhoto and iTunes library, very great option....
but i think, is not a good idea to enable a PS3 icon in menu bar in which have a text menu that open a preference windows in which we can set our configuration?
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Hello Cory Nixx! This is Cory's first time shooting with Aziani and she made herself right at home. She seemed perfectly comfortable in front of the camera and really put on a sexy show. She wasn't shy at all about lifting up her short dress and showing her smooth pussy and she seemed to really enjoy getting those awesome big boobies out too. Cory has a super tight body is really stays in shape. You're going to love her!
Cory Nixx performs a sexy strip and sensual tease for us in these outdoor sunshine pics! She takes off those short shorts and pulls up her super tight tank top revealing her extremely hard and excited body! Her nipples are super hard and her pussy is very soft and smooth. Not to mention her tight little ass in the perfect shape of a heart. What's not to love about her?


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Houma navigation canal bridge to close for revamping
Published: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 3:35 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 3:35 p.m.
The Houma Navigation Canal Bridge will close from 7 p.m. every Friday until 5 a.m. every Monday through November 19.
The weekend closures, which will start Friday, are so crews can build a new bridge operator station, along with other parts of a $9.9 million state project to rehabilitate the swing bridge.
For the first week of construction, the bridge will on weekends, as well as daily from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct.15 to 19.
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development officials suggest the Houma Tunnel and Twin spans as alternate routes.
"Motorists are asked to drive with caution through the construction site and lookout for work crews and their equipment," Project Engineer Jacob Oncale said in a news release Tuesday.
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When Katie Schultz and Matt Hogan told the Sugar Pine Bakery staff that they were closing the bakery to take care of Hogan's parents in New York, Jonathan and Teresa Aragon faced a difficult choice. They could either start looking for new jobs in the cooking and baking world, or they could take a risk that promised to jump-start their culinary career.
The young couple chose the latter option, and in early October the Aragons became the proud new owners of the South Shore bakery for $65,000.
"At first it didn't hit us that we should go for it. We were in the car going to Carson City one day, and we were just saying, 'Wouldn't it be awesome if we took over the bakery?'" Jonathan Aragon said.
"We're very excited and we're a little nervous. But we have a lot of support in this community. I love Tahoe, and never wanted to leave," he said.
The couple - newly wed on Aug. 31 - met when they were 5 years old growing up in South Lake Tahoe. Both attended South Tahoe High School, where Teresa Aragon got her first taste of culinary classes in the high school's Career Technical Education program. She apprenticed with Schultz at Katie Cakes for her senior project and, after graduation in 2009, she continued culinary classes with Jonathan Aragon at Lake Tahoe Community College.
Teresa Aragon saw cooking as a fun activity, not as a career, but then she began studying at LTCC and her perspective changed.
"I saw cooking as a hobby. I was working at that time in a dental office, but then I started taking the cooking classes," she said.
During one of those sessions in 2010, the class took a short field trip to Sugar Pine Bakery to learn about bread making. At the time Teresa Aragon said she had no idea the bakery and Katie Cakes shared owners, and when Schultz approached her about halfway through the session, she was surprised and excited.
Shortly after that meeting, she and Jonathan Aragon started working for Schultz and Hogan at Sugar Pine, where they learned a tremendous amount about baking and running a business from the two owners, Teresa Aragon said.
Both Teresa and Jonathan Aragon have cooking in their genes. Teresa Aragon's father worked at Harrah's Lake Tahoe as a chef, while her husband's mother cooked in a restaurant in Mexico before moving to the United States and his father as served in various kitchens around the South Shore including at Edgewood Tahoe.
Like Teresa Aragon's father, Hogan also took a turn in Harrah's kitchen, working at the casino for two decades before setting his sights on his own bakery.
The couple opened Katie Cakes in 2008, and after a year of successful business, they decided to expand by opening Sugar Pine in 2009.
In those three years, the couple served more than a dozen restaurants and wholesalers who relied on the bakery for bread, and thousands of individuals looking for fresh pastries or a warm loaf.
Now, Schultz and Hogan will leave the South Shore and move to New York to take care of Hogan's aging parents.
"It's hard to leave Tahoe because it's such a beautiful place. We enjoyed having the bakery for three years. We have a loyal following that enjoyed what we made. As far as South Lake Tahoe, it's good because someone is continuing the business. We're really excited to see it keep going because we put a lot of work into it," Hogan said.
Fresh Ketch General Manager Dan Beermann said he hasn't spoken with the new owners about continuing the restaurant's businesses with the bakery, but as a loyal local customer of Sugar Pine, personally he's happy he'll still be able to purchase the fresh bread.
"It has a big local following. That's where my wife and I buy all our bread. I think it's great they're staying in business," Beermann said.
Hogan and Schultz will leave for the East Coast on Nov. 1, at which point the next generation of bakers will take full control of Sugar Pine. It makes leaving a little easier to know that the bakery is in the hands of two excited, young owners, Schultz said.
As Jonathan Aragon headed to the kitchen on Wednesday to prepare croissants for tomorrow's customers, he smiled and shook his head.
"I'm just so happy. I can't believe that at our age we've accomplished our dream basically," he said.


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You're not meant to judge a book by its cover, but of course, as designers, we totally do! Luckily, the covers Isabel Urbina Peña designs always make me pick up the book. I also love what she's done with the styling and presentation on her website ... Beautiful work Isabel!
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THE HOLY SPIRIT AT WORKbyS. Franklin Logsdon"It is expedient for you that I go away . . . I will send him unto you"Copyright © 1960
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago
edited for Our Final Authority by Baptist Bible Believer in the spirit of the Colportage ministry of a century agohttp://ourfinalauthority.com/index.php~ out-of-print and in the public domain ~During online Internet searches of the Library of Congress database in Washington D.C.,
performed on - -2009, no evidence of a current copyright renewal within 28 years of copyright prior to 1964 was found for this publication.Please note: If you wish to read (which is absolutely free), simply click on the chapter title.
GOD bless you from the Baptist Bible Believers website!Please tell everyone you know about this website, pray for this ministry - and that will be payment enough!"Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding" (Proverbs 23:23)TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACEHE HOLY SPIRIT is the Administrator of the divine economy: - We deal with Him, else we are out of touch with Heaven.
- We yield to His gracious promptings, or we submerge ourselves in the futility of self-will.
- We receive of His strength, or we remain impotent.
Our eyes will be unopened; our minds unenlightened; our hearts unaffected; our feet not led.
The Holy Spirit is not only the Administrator of the divine economy, He is also the Author of divine Revelation.
- He employed human instrumentality, but the Bible is His production.
- Holy men of old were borne along by His power and direction (II Peter 1:21).
- He wove the element of life into its lines as the wool is woven into the fabric (I Peter 1:23).
- He infused into its texture the manna of Heaven to nourish the life it produces (Job 23:12; II Peter 1:3).
- He electrified its content with hallowed illumination capable of dissipating the densest darkness along our wilderness pathway (Psalm 119:105).
- He incorporated a power within its message to bulwark the believer against the militating forces of evil.
- He built into its structure a potent provision capable of dismantling the strongholds of Satan.
The Holy Spirit is the Lord of the harvest. He controls the workers in the field, which is the world, by empowering, directing and prospering.
- Where there is a lack of acquaintanceship with Him, there will be proportionately a lack of service for Him.
- Where there is a lack of service, there will be a lack of reward.
Meanwhile, the work which He designed will be unaccomplished. Then declension ensues—spiritual darkness sets in; saints weaken; the church limps and lags; and the unconverted plunge unchecked toward disillusionment and doom.
The Holy Spirit has power to regenerate, providing a new nature;
- To sanctify, producing a new character;
- To energize, promoting a new fruitfulness;
- To illuminate, presenting a new vision.
Yet, to the multitudes, this member of the Godhead is no more than a fantasy or a mere influence. We tremble at the consequences of inattention, indeed willful rejection, exhibited so prevailingly with regard to His presence and purpose. This can only invite sorrow, defeat and eternal loss.
The considerations of the Spirit's ministry in this volume, although not exhaustive, cover a wide area of important, practical truth.
May His tender entreaties and gracious promptings find in each of us a perceptible yieldedness, indeed a full surrender to His control!
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- Jul 9:
- Elegant picnics for opera-in-the park crowd
- The essential picnic checklist
- May 31:
- Guide to free summer concerts in the Bay Area
- Jul 9:
- Recipe: Roasted Pork Tenderloin Sandwich with Zesty Roasted Red Pepper Spread
- Recipe: Raspberry Peach Bars
- Recipe: Pea and Mint Salad
- Recipe: Cucumber, Chile and Pumpkin Seed Salad
Yellow Nectarine Mojitos
Serves 1
Note: You can substitute peaches or cherries for the nectarines. For picnicking, tote the cocktails, minus the club soda, in Mason jars stashed on ice. Top with club soda just before serving.
1/2 cup nectarines, diced
6 fresh mint leaves, roughly torn
1/2 lime, sliced in half
1 tablespoon sugar
2 ounces white rum
2 ounces club soda, chilled
1. In the bottom of a heavy drinking glass, combine the nectarines, mint, lime wedges and sugar. Use a muddler to smash them together and release all the oils and juices.
2. Fill the glass with ice cubes, then add the rum. Top off the mojito with chilled club soda. Stir well, and serve with a straw.
-- Heather Christo


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In my defense, all of this was done in preparation for my kids coming to visit for Mother's Day weekend. I like to send them home with homemade goodies and this time around it was packages of homemade pizza dough and noodles. I'm thinking of having my name permanently changed to Mother Theresa Betty Crocker and I'm going to throw a big party where we'll feast on baked goods as we get our rosary beads all sticky with flour and sugar. Sound good? Don't worry, I always keep a sink full of hot soapy holy water to clean up with afterward.
The noodles I've blogged about before, so nothing new there, but since my kids haven't gone completely whole grain yet, I came up with this pizza dough recipe to help bridge the gap. It's definitely lighter than my whole wheat version, but still incorporates some whole wheat flour for nutritional value.
1 cup white whole wheat flour
1 cup unbleached bread flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 1/2 tsp vital wheat gluten
1 TBSP pizza dough flavor (optional, but delicious)
2 tsp instant yeast
1 TBSP olive oil
3/4 cup warm water (90-100 degrees)
In the bowl of your stand mixer, combine the flours, salt, sugar, wheat gluten, pizza dough flavor and instant yeast. Whisk together. Add the olive oil and the water. Using dough hook, mix and knead dough for 8-10 minutes, adding more water or flour as needed, until dough is smooth and elastic. Spray a large bowl with cooking spray and transfer dough to bowl, rolling it around to completely coat with oil. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let proof at room temperature until doubled, about one hour. Gently punch dough down to degas, knead again for a few minutes and return to bowl. Cover bowl again with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, remove dough from fridge about an hour and a half before you want to bake the pizza. Spray some cooking spray on your counter top and transfer dough. Cover dough with plastic wrap that has been sprayed with cooking spray. Let rest while you make your sauce and put the rest of your pizza ingredients together.
The white sauce: (enough for one 12-14 inch pizza)
1 TBSP olive oil
pinch of crushed red pepper flakes
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 TBSP all-purpose flour
1 cup milk
2 TBSP grated parmesan cheese
1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
In a saute pan heat olive oil over medium heat. Add crushed red pepper flakes, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper and flour. Cook and stir for 2-3 minutes than whisk in milk. Reduce heat and whisk and stir until sauce is smooth and has started to thicken. Remove pan from heat and whisk in the parmesan and mozzarella cheeses. Set aside.
For the toppings: (enough for one 12-14 inch pizza)
1 TBSP olive oil
2 cups sliced button mushrooms
3 cups broccoli florets
salt and pepper
1 clove garlic, minced
1 1/2 cups cooked, diced chicken breast meat
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
In a skillet heat olive oil over medium heat. Add mushrooms and saute until they've given up most of their liquid, 5-6 minutes. Add the broccoli florets and season with salt and pepper. Saute for another minute or two then add minced garlic and saute for one more minute. Remove from heat and add chicken. Stir well to combine.
To assemble and bake:
Place pizza stone in oven and preheat oven to 475 degrees.
Spray parchment paper with cooking spray and lightly dust with cornmeal (optional.)
Place dough on prepared parchment paper and flatten. Working from the middle to the outside, press and stretch the pizza dough into a 12-14 inch round. If it resists, just let it rest for 5-10 minutes and then work with it again.
Transfer pizza crust and parchment paper to pizza stone. Bake for 5 minutes then remove crust from oven, leaving stone in oven. Spread white sauce evenly across crust, then top with the chicken, mushroom and broccoli mixture. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese over all. Return crust to oven. You should be able to do this without the parchment paper at this point. Bake for an additional 8-10 minutes, or until crust is evenly browned and cheese is bubbly.


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Heart Disease Health Center
Bradycardia (Slow Heart Rate) - Topic Overview
What are the symptoms?
A very slow heart rate may cause you to:
- Feel dizzy or lightheaded.
- Feel short of breath and find it harder to exercise.
- Feel tired.
- Have chest pain or a feeling that your heart is pounding or fluttering (palpitations).
- Feel confused or have trouble concentrating.
- Faint, if a slow heart rate causes a drop in blood pressure.
Some people don't have symptoms, or their symptoms are so mild that they think they are just part of getting older.
You can find out how fast your heart is beating by taking your pulse . If your heartbeat is slow or uneven, talk to your doctor.
How is bradycardia diagnosed?
Your doctor may take your pulse to diagnose bradycardia. Your doctor might also do a physical exam, ask questions about your past health, and do an electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG). An EKG measures the electrical signals that control heart rhythm.
Bradycardia often comes and goes, so a standard EKG done in the doctor's office may not find it. An EKG can identify bradycardia only if you are actually having it during the test.
You may need to use a portable (ambulatory) electrocardiogram. This lightweight device is also called a Holter monitor or a cardiac event monitor. You wear the monitor for a day or more, and it records your heart rhythm while you go about your daily routine.
You may also have blood tests to find out if another problem is causing your slow heart rate.
How is it treated?
How bradycardia is treated depends on what is causing it. Treatment also depends on the symptoms. If bradycardia doesn't cause symptoms, it usually isn't treated.
- If damage to the heart's electrical system causes your heart to beat too slowly, you will probably need to have a pacemaker. A pacemaker is a device placed under your skin that helps correct the slow heart rate. People older than 65 are most likely to have a type of bradycardia that requires a pacemaker.
- If another medical problem, such as hypothyroidism or an electrolyte imbalance, is causing a slow heart rate, treating that problem may cure the bradycardia.
- If a medicine is causing your heart to beat too slowly, your doctor may adjust the dose or prescribe a different medicine. If you cannot stop taking that medicine, you may need a pacemaker.
The goal of treatment is to raise your heart rate so your body gets the blood it needs. If severe bradycardia isn't treated, it can lead to serious problems. These may include fainting and injuries from fainting, as well as seizures or even death.


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Renowned harpist Elizabeth Hainen comes to Breckenridge Wednesday for an intimate chamber concert at Father Dyer Church featuring music by French composers for harp, violin and flute.Considered one of today's foremost virtuoso harpists, Hainen became principal harpist of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1994. She returns to Breck joined by Jeffrey Khaner, principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Bertrand Cervera, solo violinist of the Orchestre National de France. "This concert will be a passage through the Impressionism era," said Hainen. "Around 1915, Paris was alive with many expats, and artists discovered their greatest creativity." Part of the Breckenridge Music Festival's 2012-13 Encore Winter Series, the program will include works from favorite French composers including "Romance" for Flute and Harp by Camille Saint-Saens, "L'enfance du Christ" by Hector Berlioz, "Cantique de Jean Racine" by Gabriel Faure and "Pice en Forme de Habanera" by Maurice Ravel."What distinguishes the Impressionist French music from all other classical music is that it represents a pivotal change in harmony and color," Hainen said. "It also brought the symphony orchestra to its current paradigm in the 20th and 21st centuries." The program starts with the Trio Sonata by Jean-Marie Leclair, a Baroque violinist and composer. Originally written for baroque flute with accompaniment by viola da gamba and harpsichord, the Trio Sonata will be performed using the descendants of the original instruments to create a fuller version with rich sonorities and colors. The composer, organist and conductor Saint-Sans is best known for "The Carnival of the Animals" and his Cello Concerto No. 1, though "Romance" has remained a repertoire staple. Ravel originally composed "Habanera," a song without words, for bass voice and piano in 1907, modeling it on the slow, sultry dance of the same name. Like most French composers of the period, Ravel was fascinated by the music of Spain and used it as the basis for a difficult virtuoso exercise for the bass voice. Transposed for many instruments over time, the piece is now a favorite in the violin-piano repertoire. On Wednesday, Hainen and Cervera will perform it on violin and harp. Among Hainen's favorites is Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun," which she described as "a major turning point in the history of music." The group composed their own arrangement of the piece to include the three instruments - flute, violin and harp - along with "colorful percussion accents" added by David DePeters, Hainen said. "This is a rare opportunity to hear this piece performed by not only one of the most famous violinists in France, Bertrand Cervera, but the most renowned flutist of the symphonic world, Jeffrey Khaner," she said. "His interpretation of this work is not to be missed."
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—Christine Lienemann-Perrin, professor for ecumenical
theology at the University of Bern, will deliver a lecture series titled "Mission
on the Stage of World Christianity" December 2 and 3—
NJ, November 19, 2013–Christine Lienemann-Perrin, professor emerita
of missiology and ecumenical studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of
Basel, and part-time professor for ecumenical theology at the University of
Bern, will address a faith perspective on "Mission on the Stage of World
Christianity" in Princeton Theological Seminary's annual Students' Lectureship
on Missions. The lectures will be held on Monday, December 2 and Tuesday, December
3 in the Daniel J. Theron Room in the Princeton Theological Seminary Library.
studied Protestant theology in Bern, Switzerland, and Montpellier, France, and earned
a doctorate from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
She was
previously an academic staff member of the Protestant Institute for
Interdisciplinary Research in Heidelberg, and has traveled to South Korea,
Japan, Taiwan, India, Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa,
Cameroon, Zimbabwe, and the United States for research, lectures, and study
publications focus on mission and interreligious dialogue, feminist missiology,
ecumenical political ethics, religious conversion in diverse contexts, and
world Christianity.
The lecture
schedule is as follows:
Monday, December
2 at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture I: "Christian
Mission in Japan's History: Failure or Success?"
Tuesday, December
3 at 3:00 p.m.
Lecture II: "'From
Mission Studies to World Christianity Studies: Historiographical, Sociological, and
Ecumenical Contours of a New Concept"
Tuesday, December
3 at 7:00 p.m.
Lecture III: "Account
for the Hope That Is in You": Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives on Mission"
lectures are open to the public free of charge. For more information, contact
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January 25, 2012
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I have 2 problems in Fedora 16,
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Very often it is happening. Opening a new terminal some times fix the problem .
2. When I do shutdown using, "shutdown -P now" and the shutdown using physical Power button, the system is not shutting down. Means, it closed all the programs but finally it is hanging in the blue screen with Fedora Symbol. No prograss after that.
I am just pressing Power button for some seconds to turn off, but I think it is a kind of force shutdown.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi golf team shot an opening-round 298 and followed that up with a 313 in the afternoon session to sit in 10th place through two rounds of the Oregon State Invitational. Vanessa Johnson leads the way with a 7-over 151 through 36 holes. The final 18 holes of the event will be played tomorrow at Trysting Tree Golf Club.
The Islanders sat in sixth place through the first 18 holes of action after an impressive plus-10 in the elite event. Their second-round performance saw them fall back to 10th in the stadndings. The team will tee off from the 10th hole, starting with Taylor Slagle at 8 a.m. PT, in the final round tomorrow.
In addition to Johnson's 151 (74-77), Lindsay Biehler (76-78) and Krista Fenniak (74-80) each posted 154 on the day. Senior Nikki Dunn shot a 155 (74-81), while Slagle added a 159 (81-78) for the Islanders.
Dunn got off to a tough start in the opening round, carding a double bogey on the 13th, before notching three straight pars and then a bogey on 17. That's when the senior locked in, with seven pars and two birdies on the next nine holes to drop back to +1. She countered a bogey on the ninth with a birdie on 11 before closing the round with a five on the par-4 12th to sit at +2.
Johnson had an eventful opening in the first 18 holes, going par-birdie-double out of the gate. She then settled in with 12 pars and a bogey over the next 13 holes to move to 2-over. The Corpus Christi native finished her opening round with a bogey on 12 and a birdie 2 on 13 to card a 74 of her own.
Fenniak had a consistent opening round, posting two bogeys and a birdie in her first four holes. She followed that with par on holes 1-4, but bogeys on the fourth and the seventh set her back to +3. The native Canadian responded with six pars and a birdie (on the 13th) to finish with a 74, the second-lowest round of her career.
Biehler delivered a 76 for the opening 18 to help the Islanders sit sixth through the first round. The junior, who retooled her swing in the offseason, got off to a shaky start with a double on the 14th, her opening hole. But from then on, she was rock solid, carding 13 pars, three bogeys and a birdie (on the 1st) to sit +4 after the opening round. Slagle shot an 81 in the first round for the Islanders.
Johnson had a wild start to her second round, opening with a birdie on 14, then going bogey-par-double-bogey to fall back to plus-three on her way to the first. On the front nine, she carded pars on eight holes, with her only blemish a double on the 6th. After a bogey on 10, she bounced back with two pars, then finished her round with a birdie on 13 to close the round with a 77.
In the afternoon, Biehler again showed her consistency. After two pars and then a bogey on 16, she delivered par on nine of the next 11 holes to sit at 3-over heading to the turn. A bogey on 10 and a double on 12 pushed her to plus-6, and then she finished off the day with a par on the 13th for a 78.
Slagle improved over the final 18, starting with four pars and a bogey out of the gate. A double and three bogeys on the front nine moved her to plus-6, and she trimmed a stroke with a birdie on the 11th. She closed bogey-par-par to finish her round with a 78.
Fenniak delivered a roller coaster of a round over her second 18. The junior finished atop the team with four birdies, but also posted three doubles and a triple – all on the back nine. She closed her day with bogeys on 13 and 14 for an 80 in the afternoon session.
Dunn's second round started with a bogey on 13, followed by a par on 14 and a double on 15 to move to plus-3 on the round. She then responded with five pars and a bogey over the next six holes to sit at plus-4 heading to the fourth. The next four holes, though, saw three bogeys and a double, as the senior fell to plus-9. She bounced back with a birdie on the ninth, but went bogey-par-par on her final three holes to enter the clubhouse with an 81.
Live results for tomorrow's final round will be available on GolfStat.com and will be posted on the official Islanders Golf Twitter account (@IslandersGolf) throughout the day.
T26. Vanessa Johnson (74-77—151)
T44. Lindsay Biehler (76-78—154)
T44. Krista Fenniak (74-80—154)
T51. Nikki Dunn (74-81—155)
T63. Taylor Slagle (81-78—159)


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The Triumph of the Republic
Ten years before the centenary of the French Revolution, the City of Paris organised a competition for a monument to the glory of the new republican institutions, to be erected in the East of Paris.
The Maurice brothers won the competition and their Monument to the Republic now stands on Place de la République.
However, Jules Dalou's project impressed the councillors, who commissioned him to make a bronze version for today's Place de la Nation. This Triumph of the Republic was inaugurated in 1899.
A keen Republican, Dalou chose to give his monument a sense of the momentum that was carrying humanity towards a new golden age : the triumphant Republic stands on top of the chariot of the Nation, drawn by lions guided by the Spirit of Freedom; Labour (symbolised by a blacksmith) and Justice stand beside of the chariot; Peace distributes the fruits of plenty.
The whirling movement of the composition and the exuberant realism of its figures make this study a masterpiece that revolutionised the conventions of sculpture at the time.


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hammer 1
1A tool with a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails.
Example sentences
- Grip pressure should be firm but not tight - about the way you would grip a hammer's handle while driving nails.
- Most of the project requires basic wood-working tools - a circular saw, a saber saw, an electric drill, a hammer, and a nail set.
- Before you hit your sales reps with a lot of questions or break out the hammer and nails to begin building displays, do an assessment of your shop.
mallet, beetle, gavel, sledgehammer, jackhammer
1.1A machine with a metal block for giving a heavy blow to something.
Example sentences
- A hydraulic hammer is basically a hydraulically powered reciprocating piston inside of a body.
- Shaw points out that hydraulic hammers and pulverizer attachments have allowed them to pick up demolition work on bridges and commercial and industrial buildings.
- Hydraulic hammers and breakers, attached to big excavators or scudding skid-steers, announce demolition.
1.2An auctioneer's mallet for indicating by a sharp tap that an article is sold.
Example sentences
- City fans will be given a chance to get hold of their own piece of football history when items from Maine Road go under the auctioneer's hammers.
- A auctioneer lowers his hammer as a painting believed to be a work by Vincent Van Gogh is sold for US $550,000 in Tokyo yesterday.
- Before I knew it my arm flew up, the auctioneer banged the hammer down and she was mine!
1.3A part of a mechanism that hits another part to make it work, such as one exploding the charge in a gun or one striking the strings of a piano.
Example sentences
- On the other hand, Debussy seems at times to call for a delicacy beyond the capability of fingers or for a piano which has no hammers at all.
- The SFS adds a mechanical hammer block to prevent the hammer from hitting the firing pin unless the trigger is pulled.
- If struck a hard blow, the hammers are designed to shear rather than override the sears.
2A metal ball, typically weighing 16 pounds (7.3 kg), attached to a wire for throwing in an athletic contest.
Example sentences
- And what about if the hockey was taking place on the same field that they were throwing the hammer and javelin.
- For Skyrac AC Nicola Jackson threw the hammer 39.22m for sixth place.
- Aidan Kelly scored top points when finishing in 1st place in the hammer with a throw of 36.24.
2.1 (the hammer) The sport of throwing a metal ball attached to a wire.
Example sentences
- There is also a track surface to provide a run-up for the javelin meaning the only disciplines the facility cannot currently play host to is the hammer and pole vault.
- We are very strong here in Sligo on the track, but quite weak in some field events such as pole vault, high jump and hammer.
- In the under-17 events, James Nagle won gold in the hammer and shot putt contests.
3 another term for malleus.
Example sentences
- The findings are drawn from examination of the hammer, anvil and stirrup bones in the ears of Homo heidelbergensis fossils, also known as Boxgrove Man.
- The drum vibrates with the sound and rattles three small bones: the hammer, anvil and stirrup.
- There they became the anvil and the hammer, minute bones that transmit sound from the eardrum to the stirrup bone and, ultimately, to the inner ear.
verb[with object]
1Hit or beat (something) with a hammer or similar object: they are made by heating and hammering pieces of iron
More example sentences
- 'In old times they started making gold leaf by hammering gold between pieces of leather,' Tsaneva explains.
- Toe plates are then cut from sheet metal, and pieces of iron are hammered and twisted into shape to form soles and heels.
- The best type of helm was hammered and raised out of a single piece of iron and was therefore stronger than a riveted one.
1.1 [no object] Strike or knock at or on something violently with one's hand or with a hammer or other object: she hammered on his door
More example sentences
- On a coffee table in their sitting room stood two cups of cold coffee and the remains of two cream cakes - all that was left of the snack they abandoned last night when a neighbour hammered on their door and told them they had to get out.
- Stephen then hammered on the door of a house to get help and an elderly man let him in and comforted him for half-an-hour before he walked for five minutes up the road to his home.
- Both Mr Noble and Mr Roper then hammered on the room doors along the corridor to rouse other guests before dashing upstairs to wake people on the top floor.
1.2 [no object] (hammer away) Work hard and persistently: for six months I have been hammering away at a plot
More example sentences
- I continue to hammer away at the importance of public broadcasting, and the importance of saving our book publishing industry.
- SGI continues to be happy hammering away on the high end graphics and scientific computing markets.
- While the company continues to hammer away at the upscale appliance market in the United States, it has opened its once-proprietary control protocol to other companies.
work hard at, labor at, slog away at, plod away at, grind away at, slave away at, work like a dog on, put one's nose to the grindstone for;
persist with, persevere with, press on with
informal stick at, plug away at, work one's tail off on/for, soldier on with
1.3 [with object] Drive or secure (something) by striking with or as if with a hammer: he hammered the tack in he was hammering leather soles onto a pair of small boots
1.4 (hammer something in/into) Instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) forcefully or repeatedly: the "diversity is good" message is hammered into them
More example sentences
- Indeed, the point was hammered in by a voice-overed narrator contributing fatuous observations like 'The huge gulf between rich and poor highlights how lucky we are in New Zealand!'
- The deal is simple, and he hammers it in more specifically: 'Do not play with our security, and spontaneously you will secure yourself.'
- If Democrats don't soon begin to strongly support serious movement to renewable energy sources - including hammering the idea in the corporate media - then Republicans may do just that.
drum into, instill in, inculcate into, knock into, drive into;
drive home to, impress upon;
ingrain into
2 informal Attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly: he got hammered for an honest mistake
More example sentences
- This is the first time I've ever had a case where in a shoplifting situation somebody has been hammered this relentlessly.
- The author has been hammered by critics into a tiny ball of bloody gunk over the last few months.
- They just attacked me, hammered me at the book signing.
2.1Utterly defeat in a game or contest: they hammered St. Louis 6-0
More example sentences
- Although Skolars were hammered by a record score in the last game against Batley, Moorby is still taking the game seriously.
- We got a glimpse of what may be possible when we hammered Doncaster in the opening game.
- Swinging early and connecting often, the Giants hammered Curt Schilling and Brian Anderson in the first two games.
come (or go) under the hammer
- Be sold at an auction.Example sentences
- A photograph of Edward VIII taken during his notorious meeting with Adolf Hitler failed to sell at auction yesterday when it went under the hammer as part of a collection of private papers which belonged to his aide.
- Two previously unheard recordings by John Lennon were sold for €216,000 yesterday when they went under the hammer at an auction of pop memorabilia.
- It came under the hammer at the auction and was sold for E50.
hammer and tongs
- informal Energetically, enthusiastically, or with great vehemence: all the way to the bottom, Larry could hear them clanging away, hammer and tongsMore example sentences
- It went into extra-time, you had two world-class teams going at it hammer and tongs.
- We expected Clare to come at us hammer and tongs, but it wasn't until we began to create space for ourselves up front in the closing quarter that the tide turned in our favour.
- Poor old Gordon has to sleep on the other side of the house, while Cherie's going at it hammer and tongs, screaming like a banshee.
hammer something home
- see home.
Phrasal verbs
hammer something out
- At first brass or copper sheet was made by hammering it out by hand.
- The blacksmith who hammered it out from a single piece of stock was skilled at his trade.
- This might be what was so puzzling to Moshe about the Menorah being hammered out from one piece of gold.
- But the conditions are that the guerrillas call a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities - a non-starter as the rebels have always said a ceasefire could only be called after the details of a peace agreement had been hammered out.
- Now, sources say that votes could come as early as next Wednesday in the House and Thursday in the Senate, when all the details are hammered out.
- In the end, there was too much opposition from business and development interests, so the CIR was put on hold while the superstore plan was hammered out.
- "Walking the Dog" was followed by the final tune of the first set, "Snake Rag", hammered out at a 140 tempo.
- We had worked on it at sound checks, but hadn't really started hammering it out that morning before he got there.
1Make something by shaping metal with a hammer.
Example sentences
2Laboriously work out the details of a plan or agreement: a deal was being hammered out with the Dutch museums
More example sentences
thrash out, work out, agree on, sort out, decide on, bring about, effect, produce, broker, negotiate, reach an agreement on
3Play a tune loudly or clumsily, especially on the piano.
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hammerer noun
- Example sentences
- And for the hammerers and welders, riveters and panel beaters, shipwrights and stevedores slaving away daily, they can gaze at those portions of the docks turned into yuppie havens and dream of perhaps, one day, moving up and in.
- When a so called top sporting team gets absolutely hammered there is always a danger the media will focus on the 'hammered' rather than the 'hammerer'.
- We didn't have the stamina of the horde of hammerers who hammered well into the early hours.
- Example sentences
- The shift from pins to hammerless equipment improved the sustainability of a finite resource - some cracks were becoming nothing more than a series of pin scars - and, consequently, improved the sustainability of the sport itself.
- 'We have taken the striker-fired hammerless slide and barrel portion prevalent in our European competitors and integrated them into the 1911 handset,' said Brent Mounts of Alchemy Arms.
- The double-barrel shotgun, preferably the hammerless kind that 'on-safes' itself each time the action is opened, has served the same function on the shotgun side for decades.
Old English hamor, hamer, of Germanic origin: related to Dutch hamer, German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr 'rock'. The original sense was probably 'stone tool'.
Old English hamor has a Germanic origin, related to German Hammer, and Old Norse hamarr 'rock, crag'. The original sense was probably 'stone tool or weapon'. The expression hammer and tongs (early 18th century) meaning 'with energy and speed' comes from the blacksmith showering blows on the iron taken by the help of tongs from the fire.
Words that rhyme with hammerAlabama, clamour (US clamor), crammer, gamma, glamour (US glamor), gnamma, grammar, jammer, lamber, mamma, rammer, shammer, slammer, stammer, yammer
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I really got bored of making thogayal, pachadi and poriyal with vazhaithandu.My husband hates to eat vazhaithandu just becoz it takes so much time to chew n eat ;). I heard drinking vazhaithandu juice in empty stomach is one of the healthiest way to include in our diet. Its a hassle free job too.Last month when i went to my native ,we tasted this juice in a famous restaurant. We loved it.It was mild in sweet and served chilled.We couldn't find out its the juice of vazhaithandu .I wanted to try the same at home.I tried sweet and salt versions. Both were excellent. I dint serve it cold , i made at room temperature.So its ur choice !!
Coriander leaves - To garnish
- Drinking vazhathandu juice alone doesnot help u to shed ur weight. U have to carry on the other things like diet .excercise etc.
- U can prepare the juice in another way .
- Grind the Banana stem with salt , pepper powder and lime juice. Filter and enjoy !! Hope this method sounds easier.
A potassium rich food with high fiber content and it has many other amazing health benefits.
Most people include banana in their daily diet, but very few have ever thought of including banana stem. The banana stem has many nutritive and health benefits. The stem is usually thrown away once the fruit is cut from the plant. So next time if you happen to find one, think of including it in your menu. Here are some good health reasons why banana stem must be part and parcel of your diet at least on occasions.
Banana stem is rich in fiber and helps weight loss. Due to rich content, it helps body to feel full faster. The intake of food gets reduced by including banana stem to diet. It can be taken in the form of juice, but eating it as a whole provides more benefits. Including it once or twice a week can help people looking for ways to cut down extra pounds.
Like banana, banana stem is also rich in potassium and vitamin B6. Vitamin B6 helps production of chemicals such as hemoglobin and insulin. Again, it improves the ability of body to fight against infection. Potassium helps effective functioning of muscles including cardiac muscles, prevents high blood pressure, helps nerve impulses and maintains fluid balance within the body.
It is a diuretic and helps detoxify the body. Some believe that banana stem can prevent and treat kidney stones. This is fact under study and the effectiveness has not been proven by the western world.
It can be taken as a laxative for constipation. Again, the rich fiber content prevents constipation. It cools the body. So overall, banana stem does wonders to our body.
How to include them in diet? Very tender ones can be used in salads and not so tender ones can be added to soups or as a steamed vegetable.
Slicing banana stem for dishes might be hard work, but it provides unmatchable health benefits.Its a cooling agent to our body , so use it weekly twice is recommended.


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When Kermit Ruffins takes his band on the road, the population of New Orleans drops by five, but there's no calculating the Big Easy's precipitous decrease of soul.
Over the past three decades, the trumpeter, vocalist, barbecue aficionado and irrepressible entertainer has come to embody just about everything that makes New Orleans such a singular creative hothouse. Ruffins returns to the Bay Area for a series of performances with his Barbecue Swingers, including Thursday at Oakland's New Parish and Friday and Saturday at Brick & Mortar in San Francisco (where Hobo Paradise and Billy Iuso and Restless Natives open the show).
A New Orleans institution ever since he launched the Rebirth Brass Band in 1983, Ruffins has become an icon in his own right. He appears regularly as himself on the HBO series "Treme," and since the early 1990s, he has held down a coveted weekly gig with the Barbecue Swingers at Vaughan's Bar in the Bywater district.
Last year Ruffins fulfilled a longtime dream by opening Kermit's Treme Speakeasy Restaurant & Bar, where his band plays every Sunday and Monday. The joint has not only survived the difficult first year during which a majority of new restaurants fail, it's attracting high profile patrons like Robert De Niro ("He had some of my deep-fried fish," Ruffins says) and LL Cool J.
"I've loved pots and pans since I was a kid," says Ruffins, 48. "My grandparents and my mom and dad would always take big fishing trips, and we'd have a huge fish fry.
"So when I started playing music, I wanted to barbecue for the band at break time, and I had a little bitty grill. Several years later, I got a big giant smoker that I pull with my truck to every gig."
While Ruffins often performs with other high-profile New Orleans players, the Barbecue Swingers provide an invaluable showcase for musicians who have adopted the Big Easy as their hometown. The quintet features Japanese-born pianist Yoshitaka Tsuji, bassist Kevin Morris, Houston-raised drummer Derrick Freeman (a student of Ellis Marsalis) and Arizona-reared vocalist Nayo Jones, a rising star on the New Orleans scene.
"I heard her one time and put her in the band," Ruffins says.
The trumpeter takes his role as a cultural ambassador seriously, even when he's at home. In the old days, New Orleans jazz musicians were known as an ornery bunch worried about players stealing their licks. Ruffins is beloved for taking the opposite tack, welcoming players of every stripe onto the bandstand at jam sessions.
Berkeley trumpeter Erik Jekabson performed in Ruffins' big band several times during his five-year sojourn in New Orleans in the mid-1990s. He also frequented Ruffins-led jam sessions at Vaughn's and describes the trumpeter as unfailingly "generous and welcoming."
Ruffins also made an enduring impression with his gift for turning every gathering into a celebration. "He always cooked up red beans and rice," says Jekabson, who performs Sunday with vocalist Jackie Ryan at Yoshi's-Oakland. "And he sounded good on whatever he played. He put his own spin on them with that big singing New Orleans sound."
Even television's notorious hurry-up-and-wait schedule can't ruffle Ruffins. He has nothing but praise for "Treme" (creator "David Simon is a genius," he says). "It's so much work and so much fun at the same time," Ruffins says.
"You have to be there from 9 a.m. till midnight. So I bring my grill, chairs and tables, invite my friends and family, and I sit across the street until they call me. Every time they say 'cut,' I go right back to the picnic."
If there's a key to Ruffins success as an artist and entertainer, it's that he's absorbed the boundless lyricism, humor, and populist touch of both Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan. As a gravelly voiced trumpeter from New Orleans, his debt to the former is obvious, but his devotion to the latter is almost as important.
With his hugely popular Tympani Five, alto saxophonist Louis Jordan was a singular force who defined and popularized rhythm and blues in the 1940s. Ruffins grew up on his music, and he continues to make sure other people get hip to Jordan's songs.
"Just yesterday at the restaurant, I put 20 bucks in the jukebox and played 20 Louis Jordan records to warm up the house," Ruffins says. "I just love his style. When the sound is so unique and so happy, you can tell those cats were having a lot of fun."
kermit ruffins and the barbecue swingers
When: 8 p.m. Thursday
Where: The New Parish,
579 18th St., Oakland
Tickets: $9-$15,
Also: 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Brick & Mortar, 1710 Mission St., San Francisco,
$15-$20, 415-800-8782, www.brickandmortarmusic.com


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The Jackson County Sheriff's Department will be conducting sobriety checkpoints on Friday (August 30) from 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
This checkpoint will be conducted at the following locations:
Fisher Ridge Road at the intersection with Kentuck Road and near the intersection with Romie Hill Road.
Route 21 south of Fairplain at the old B&B Market.
Flatwoods Road near the Cedar Run Church.
Cottageville-Evans Road near the Otterbein Church.
For more information, contact the Jackson County Sheriff's Department.
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Health & Parenting
At-War Soldiers' Kids Suffer at Home
July 31, 2007 - There's a hidden cost to today's long military deployments -- a price paid by soldiers' children.
That cost: Children in single-mother military households are much more likely to suffer neglect and abuse during deployments.
Research Triangle Institute researcher Deborah A. Gibbs, MSPH, and colleagues report the findings in the Aug. 1 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The overall rate of child maltreatment is 42% higher during soldier deployment than during other times. The increase occurred both for mild and for moderate-to-severe maltreatment," Gibbs tells WebMD. "Not surprisingly, this results from much higher rates of maltreatment by female civilian parents, because they are the ones left at home most often."
During deployments, the children of left-at-home moms were four times more likely to suffer neglect and nearly twice as likely to suffer physical abuse.
"The surprising finding was that the effect of deployment was so consistent," Gibbs says. "Just about any way we could divide the population, we found increased rates of child maltreatment during deployment. We looked at pay grade, rank, single or multiple deployments, whether the family lives on or off post -- all showed increases."
This isn't happening because the left-at-home moms are terrible mothers -- it's happening because they are mothers stressed to the breaking point, says Wendy Lane, MD, MPH, chairwoman of the child protection team at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
"The parents who do this are not bad people. This is the case in most situations of abuse and neglect," Lane tells WebMD. "People want to do the right things for their kids, but often there are stressors that keep them from doing what they want to do."
The main stressor is the "impact of continuous deployment on our soldiers and families," says Delores Johnson, director of family programs for the U.S. Army's Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command.
"Because of the continuous deployment of troops, this is much more common than it had been before," Johnson tells WebMD. "We know that neglect tends to increase during deployments, although we have not seen these high rates before. This seems to be coming from families dealing with back-to-back and extended deployments. Mothers are functioning very much alone and dealing with schedules and new babies and all the demands that go with that."


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Fire destroys home in Etowah area
Published: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 10:29 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 10:29 p.m.
For nearly three hours, firefighters battled a blaze that destroyed a single-wide mobile home early Wednesday morning.
Firefighters found a home partially engulfed by flames in the Fox Ridge Mobile Home Park off Piney Plains Drive at about 1:25 a.m., said Etowah-Horse Shoe Volunteer Fire & Rescue Deputy Chief Mike Huggins.
No one was home at the time of the fire, and the cause of the blaze is still under investigation, Huggins said.
Five departments took turns fighting the fire, tackling challenges of heat and humidity. It was damp out and pretty warm, Huggins said, adding that firefighters had to be rotated in and out of the fiery fray to make sure they stayed hydrated. There also was limited access to the scene because of the fire.
The Henderson County Rescue Squad helped check the vital signs and conditions of each firefighter, he said.
"It took us about 35-40 minutes to control the fire," he said.
Assisting Etowah-Horse Shoe were Mountain Home Fire Rescue, Mills River Fire & Rescue, Valley Hill Fire & Rescue, Little River Volunteer Fire Department, and Henderson County EMS and Rescue Squad.
Reach Weaver at emily.weaver@ blueridgenow.com or 828-694-7867.
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CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY (LEVEL 1) Date: September 23-24, 2016 Early Bird Registration Deadline: August 22, 2016 This Certificate Training Program will focus on providing information about behaviours after ABI that relate to learning and community participation. Emphasis is on describing the cognitive-communicative problems that...
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The Ontario Brain Injury Association (OBIA) along with the Personal Injury Alliance (PIA Law) are pleased to announce the 2016 Awards of Excellence in Brain Injury Rehabilitation and the Back to School Conference: Gender Challenges in Rehabilitation. AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE: These awards are meant to recognize exceptional service to the brain injury community in...
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Largest Kansas Wind Farm is Operational
January 14, 2013
The largest wind farm in Kansas, the $800 million Flat Ridge 2 Wind Farm, is operational, BP Wind Energy and Sempra US Gas & Power announced on January 3. The joint venture will produce 470 megawatts (MW) of electricity. The entire power output from the wind farm has been sold under long-term power purchase agreements to Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. (310 MW); Southwestern Electric Power Company, a unit of American Electric Power (109 MW); and Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (51 MW), a Little Rock-based generation and transmission cooperative. Power generated from the wind farm will be exported to Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri.
Located on a 66,000-acre site spanning Harper, Barber, Kingman, and Sumner counties in rural south central Kansas, the project created over 500 jobs during the peak of construction and some 30 permanent jobs. The 294 wind turbines will generate enough electricity to power more than 140,000 average U.S. homes. See the BP press release.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Looking for a job through Facebook?
Close Facebook friends may help more than casual acquaintances, though these intimate friends can also cause you some stress, according to a study by the social media giant.
The report by Facebook research scientist Moira Burke was based on a survey of 3,000 Facebook users who were asked "about major events in their lives, their stress levels, and how much support they received from friends and family," she wrote Thursday in a Facebook blog.
The study included 169 people who recently lost their jobs.
Burke noted that sociologists point to the "strength of weak ties" in finding work, as acquaintances may have a broader network that could aid in job-hunting.
But on Facebook, she added, that's typically not the case.
"Our research found just the opposite," she wrote. "People who talked more with strong ties were twice as likely to find a new job within three months. And those who talked more with weak ties were less likely to find a job."
That's likely because of the nature of Facebook interactions.
"One possibility is that people don't actually hear about job openings from their weak ties on Facebook," she said. "People may not reveal their employment plight to contacts they don't feel close to. Weak tie stories might be about less important topics, like the Super Bowl or their vacation."
But Facebook connections can also have a double-edged effect for people struggling with unemployment.
The Facebook study found that users generally found "social support" on the site, and, Burke added, "their perceived support increased month-to-month, the more they talked with strong ties."
"But there's a catch," she added. "Talking with strong ties usually feels good, but if you've recently lost your job, it may have the opposite effect. We found that when a subset of the group who had recently lost a job talked more with their strong ties, their stress levels rose."
The reason apparently has a lot to do with the typical dynamics in any friendship or close relationship.
"Strong ties may make the psychological distress of job loss worse by offering unhelpful advice and pushing for recovery too quickly," Burke wrote. "People may feel their independence threatened by strong ties, increasing resentment rather than relief. Strong ties also experience anxiety about doing anything upsetting, which may cause them to be more casual and less encouraging."


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Knitter's Review
October 6, 2011
We should all have a favorite go-to yarn, one we can always trust to give us that little knitterly pick-me-up. It may not be flashy or frivolous or decadent, but that may be part of why we love it so—and why it loves us right back.
I've found a new yarn that has become my next go-to candidate. Called Heaven's Hand, it's a hearty and sincere four-ply spun and hand-dyed in Peru and marketed to us by the designer Cornelia Tuttle Hamilton. Few stores carry it, and I honestly can't figure out why. Want to see what it can do?
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Crispy Panko Breaded Cod atop baby arugula, shaved fennel bulbs, red onions and lemon caper aioli.
The Virginia Department of Health said it has traced a "cluster" of hepatitis A cases to frozen Egyptian strawberries used by Virginia units of a smoothie chain.
Tropical Smoothie Cafe voluntarily trashed the strawberries and switched to supplies from a different source immediately after being notified of the connection, the health department said in a statement issued Friday.
The department noted that it had traced earlier outbreaks of hepatitis A to strawberries imported from Egypt. But it warned that supplies may still be in the freezers of other foodservice operations...
Foodservice directors spend a lot of time taking care of other people, whether it's K-12 students who aren't always eating enough at home, malnourished patients back for return visits or employees squabbling among themselves. That kind of pressure can weigh heavily—and come home from work. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America finds that 83% of men and 72% of women say stress at work carries over into their personal lives, and 50% call staff management their main culprit for workplace stress.
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Students at an Arkansas high school may have to take creative measures to get a meal, thanks to a school policy that prevents parents from dropping off lunches left at home.
The Catholic High School for Boys in Little Rock, Ark., last week posted a picture on Facebook of a sign that reads, "Stop. If you are dropping off your son's forgotten lunch, books, homework, equipment, etc., please turn around and exit the building. Your son will learn to problem-solve in your absence."
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Novato Unified School District in Novato, Calif., has created a new vegetarian grab-and-go item as part of the district's Meatless Monday initiative, marinij.com reports .
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So, that's why the top officials of the Nasher and Museum Tower slipped out the other door
Sometimes, things only start to make sense well after the fact.
On the afternoon of Aug. 13, colleague Michael Granberry and I staked out Mayor Mike Rawlings offices at Dallas City Hall.
The previous weekend, we had published a story about a possible solution – an automated louver system – to the glare dispute between the Nasher Sculpture Center and Museum Tower, the $200 million luxury condo building across the street.
We had written that the mayor had summoned both sides to update him.
So, there we were, outside the mayor's offices on the 5th floor, along with Brad Watson from Ch. 8 and public relations representatives from Museum Tower and the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System, which owns the tower.
Through the glass door, from time to time, we could see the principles, pension system administrator Richard Tettamant, system general counsel Josh Mond and Nasher president David Haemisegger.
With a TV camera, reporters and PR people present, we expected that the two sides might actually take the opportunity to break the media blackout then in force and make public statements. They didn't.
Instead, at the conclusion of the meeting, Tettamant, Mond and Haemisegger slipped out the door on the opposite side of the mayor's offices and took the elevator to the underground parking garage.
I followed them while Granberry stayed behind in case the mayor should leave.
Catching Tettamant in the garage, the only thing he would say was that the talks were productive. Rawlings told Granberry that he remained hopeful of a settlement.
Now, after our reporting on the story that appeared in today's DMN, we may have a better idea why they avoided us and left so fast by the other door.
According to Museum Tower officials, Tettamant handed a $5 million check to Haemisegger after leaving the mayor's office. The amount was to cover the cost of reorienting the Nasher roof, something tower officials say would mitigate the glare problems inside the Nasher. It would also cover out-of-pocket consulting fees and any fees required by Renzo Piano, the architect of the Nasher.
Haemisegger looked at the check and returned it to Tettamant, according to Museum Tower officials.
"There was no formal offer," Haemisegger told The News Thursday. Nasher officials say the best solution is attaching louvers to Museum Tower.
In an April 4 letter from Tettamant to Haemisegger, made available to The News, Tettamant agreed to a 90-day plan suggested by the Nasher for finding a solution. The target for issuing a final report to the public was June 29.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brian Wilson finally has his World Series ring, and he is unapologetic about the scene he caused while trying to get it.
The former Giants closer spoke to the Los Angeles Times this weekend, saying Thursday's incident at AT&T Park was "no one's concern." After a 3-2 Giants victory, Wilson walked from the visiting bullpen to the backstop, where he publicly confronted Giants president and CEO Larry Baer.
The Giants said they invited Wilson to the April ring ceremony, but never heard back. Team officials spent three days this week trying to set up a private ceremony for Wilson and Giants manager Bruce Bochy, but Wilson was said to be unresponsive. After Thursday's game, he yelled at Baer as the Giants walked off the field.
"It was handled," Wilson told the Times. "I'm not asking America to understand. I don't play games. I handled the situation. It's over with. It's squashed."
Wilson had 171 saves for the Giants before being non-tendered last November as he recovered from his second Tommy John surgery. He signed with the Dodgers in August.
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/AlexPavlovic.